This work is a personal testimony from Kay Redfield Jamison: the revelation of her struggle with manic depression since adolescence, and how it has shaped her life. The book follows her through college, a love affair, her battle with the illness, bouts of madness, violence and attempted suicide.

Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf.

A comprehensive guide offering straight talk that can help people with bipolar disorder take charge of their illness and reclaim their lives.

Discusses options for diagnosis and treatment on bipolar disorder's genetic components. This book provides treatment options, including the advantages, disadvantages, and side effects of various drug therapies. It also describes what it is like to live with bipolar disorder and discusses how lifestyle changes can improve quality of life.

A Comprehensive Workbook for Managing Your Symptoms and Achieving Your Life Goals.

Second edition.

Dispels the silence and shame that surround the subject of suicide and provides a better understanding of the suicidal mind and a chance to recognize the person at risk. This book offers an analysis that helps us to comprehend the profound and disturbing sense of loss created in those left behind.

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax.

A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick.

Real-Life Questions with Up-to-Date Answers.

More than 11 million people suffer from depression in the U.S. each year. Now, this guidebook presents new ways to cope with depression and hold it at bay. Based on a study of patients diagnosed with major depression or manic-depression who have avoided serious recurrences for over two years, this guide offers proven techniques for staying well.

An uproarious look at bestselling author Carrie Fisher's Hollywood hangover, adapted from the sold-out one-woman show of the same name which the Los Angeles Times called a Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes .

One summer evening the author's daughter Sally was brought home by the police after rushing into a busy road in Greenwich Village, convinced she could halt the oncoming traffic. This book offers an account of the descent into madness of the author's teenage daughter.

The new novel from the bestselling Patrick Gale. Renowned Canadian artist Rachel Kelly -- now of Penzance -- has buried her past and married a gentle and loving Cornish man. Her life has been a sacrifice to both her extraordinary art and her debilitating manic depression.

Part of the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative series, this book addresses some of the mental health issues facing young people: depression, alcoholism, drug abuse, eating disorders, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders. It provides information on getting a diagnosis, treatment options, and coping with mental illness at home and at school.

Every day can be an ordeal for families struggling with the difficult, moody, 'impossible' behaviour that may point to childhood depression or bipolar disorder. This title describes how treatment works and what additional steps parents can take at home to help children with mood disorders.

People with 'soft' bipolar disorder, also known as Bipolar II, have frequent episodes of depression along with anxiety, irritability, and restless sleep. This guide helps you discover if you or someone you love may have a nonmanic form of bipolar disorder and shows how to work with doctors to safely treat the condition.

Honey Santana - self-proclaimed queen of lost causes - has a Plan. She's taking part-time telephonist Boyd Shreve and his mistress to Dismal Key - one of the Everglades' Ten Thousand Islands. What Honey doesn't know is that lurking in the island's undergrowth is Sammy Tigertail, a wholly failed alligator wrestler, with death on his mind.

Practical information addressing the specific needs of the romantic partner of a manic depressive.