Brian Adams

The Pits and the Pendulum (eBook, ePUB Enhanced)

A Life with Bipolar Disorder

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Produktbeschreibung

Spending a week doing nothing but exploring the possibilities of Lego, thereby risking yet another job; impulsively sinking all his savings into wildly impractical self-employment ventures; sleepless nights, gripped by the need to write - these are just some manifestations of the often damaging periods of manic, uninhibited energy Brian Adams has experienced since his mid-twenties. But as a sufferer of bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression), he has been hospitalized several times with debilitating depression and undergone electric shock treatment, numerous drug therapies and even gone so far as to attempt to take his own life.

This engaging, humorous, sometimes dark and sometimes startling account gives rich insight into how it feels to live with bipolar disorder. It is illuminating, and entertaining, reading for people with mental health problems, their families and professional carers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846423581
• Artikelnr.: 38412394

Autorenporträt

Brian Adams is fifty-five. He served an apprenticeship as a baker and confectioner, then trained in community education. Amongst his many jobs he has been a youth hostel warden, a residential childcare worker and a community development worker. Brian lives in Aberdeenshire.

Inhaltsangabe

Not A Survivor's Guide. Prologue. 1. Legoland and Holes in the Head
Mania. 2. The Pits
Depression. 3. Lost in Fife
The Beginning. 4. Flaming Buckets
Seventies Psychiatric Hospital I. 5. Pay and Free Uniform
Seventies Psychiatric Hospital II. 6. Talking to God
Suicide. 7. Christopher Columbus, David Livingstone and Me
Work. 8. One of Us
Famous Manic
Depressives. 9. Babes in my Moods
Paranoia. 10. Not Work, Not Working
Breakdown. 11. Sideways Through the Torphins HaLF
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Ambulance Journey. 12. Pantiled Peep Show
Modern Psychiatric Hospital Building. 13. Psychos! Acute Psychiatric Ward. 14. Tack Short of a Fitted Carpet
Synonyms. 15. The Last Time I Saw Linda
Electroconvulsive Therapy. 16. Sweet Violets
The Psychotherapist. 17. Sweating it out with the Professionals
Doctors and Nurses. 18. ...and Mopped up by the System
Hospital Appearances. 19. Concessionville
Getting Around. 20. Show Folks
Social Wipeout. 21. The Choir Lady
Making Things Worse. 22. Only a Salt
Prescription Drugs. 23. Another Way of Being
Something to Celebrate?