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Natasha Tracy

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Self Help, Memoir

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Natasha Tracy is an award-winning writer, speaker and consultant from the Pacific Northwest. She has been writing about living with bipolar disorder for more than a decade and been a professional mental health writer for six years.

Natasha is known for speaking her mind, whether that's in front of a crowd of hundreds or through her written work. She is savagely introspective, some would say controversial and doesn't allow political correctness to alter how she thinks about mental illness.

Natasha's work is extensively showcased on HealthyPlace and has also been featured on the Huffington Post, the Daily Mail, Healthline, PsychCentral and elsewhere.

Natasha is currently working on a research project on the patient perspectives of electroconvul ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 186 ratings · 42 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Lost Marbles: Insights into My Life with Depression & Bipolar 4.14 avg rating — 166 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Navigating Bipolar Country: Personal and Professional Perspectives on Living with Bipolar Disorder by Merryl Hammond (Goodreads Author), Julie Fast, Natasha Tracy (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I Hate Hope: How to Manage Hope When You Have Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorder

I hate hope. I really do. Every time I feel it, I try to squelch it. And there's a good reason for this. Hope leads to disappointment, and disappointment leads to depression and suffering. You may think I'm being negative here, but I'm not. I'm being realistic and speaking from experience. If you have treatment-resistant bipolar disorder (or anything else), you know what I mean. I feel like ho

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I’ll Run Till the Sun Goes Down: A Memoir About Depression and Discovering Art

by David Sandum (Goodreads Author)

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Natasha’s Quotes

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: change

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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