Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers
Author: E. Fuller Torrey, Michael B. Knable
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ISBN: 0465086632
Publisher: Basic Books (08 January, 2002)
Sales Rank: 3,806
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
This is the best BP book I've ever read.
Since being diagnosed with BP I have looked for books to help me understand more about the disease. This is the best I have found. Unlike most other works, it treats BP as a disorder different from depression and the authors respect their readers, giving details and theories that many other books leave out. It may be work to read, but it is very rewarding. Every bipolar person and family members of bipolar people should read this comprehensive book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
More than you expect
The title does this book justice. Manic Depression afflicts more than a million and may affect as many as 3,000,000 people in the US alone. With that many suffering, there is no dearth of literature on this subject. Yet most of the information prior even to the early 1990's is dated and obtuse. There is much confusion in the earlier literature between schizophrenia and bipolar. It is now understood that bipolar disorders are chemical deficiencies in the brain and can largely be controled by medications and that the patients can achieve normalcy. That's where this book is so valuable. Just published in 2002, it reviews the most recent meds and their side effects. Someone suffering with this condition needs to know this stuff. Moreover there is comprehensive information for those suffering from clinical depression and other disorders that medications frequently can help.
And that's my final remark on this wealth of information. That's why it lives up to its title. This book helps the patient and her/his family to cope. As with meds, the patients learn their life problems never really go away, but how they deal with them improves.
After reading this book, both patients and those who interact with them will be enriched in their comprehension and better able to adapt to the bipolar condition.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The Best Book of Its Type
I have read several intelligently written books on the subject of manic depression. I have suffered from the disorder for twenty-six years and have not been able to find a better book on the subject. Chances are the new paperback edition, which should be updated to include new medications, will be even better than this book. I have read several books by E. Fuller Torrey, who is, to my knowledge, America's most reliable and caring psychiatrist for the severely mentally ill.
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