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Split: A Life of Madness
In the chaos of rapidly alternating moods, a suicidal drug and alcohol addiction, and the wreckage they both leave behind, how does a young woman find the path to a happy life and stay guided down it?
Addiction memoirist Amy D. Brooks shares the unique struggles of managing a dual-diagnosis, detailing her experiences navigating sobriety while facing the psychosis of mania and distorted depressive thinking of severe Bipolar Disorder. She fumbles over the basics of living life as an adult following rehabilitation from heroin addiction and alcoholism and becomes tortured by the looming and growing threat of intense moods that endanger the stability she manages to create in spite of her turbulent past.
Addiction memoirist Amy D. Brooks shares the unique struggles of managing a dual-diagnosis, detailing her experiences navigating sobriety while facing the psychosis of mania and distorted depressive thinking of severe Bipolar Disorder. She fumbles over the basics of living life as an adult following rehabilitation from heroin addiction and alcoholism and becomes tortured by the looming and growing threat of intense moods that endanger the stability she manages to create in spite of her turbulent past.
270 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2016
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January 25, 2019
Looking for hope
Loved this book, gave me hope for better days, hope for my suffering to end over my siblings suicide. Made me realize some things in myself.
Loved this book, gave me hope for better days, hope for my suffering to end over my siblings suicide. Made me realize some things in myself.
August 13, 2016
Very eye opening. Public is not informed about mental health isssues. It is a treatable DISEaSE!
Very informative. Down-to-Earth explanation about bi-polar disease. Excellent explanation from a patient's point of view. I would recommend it to anyone.
Very informative. Down-to-Earth explanation about bi-polar disease. Excellent explanation from a patient's point of view. I would recommend it to anyone.
July 24, 2017
The author gives a graphic account of her journey of coming to terms with her diagnosis of bipolar syndrome. She has fought to become sober, but it is not enough; her life is still full of roller-coaster emotions, recurring nightmares and thoughts of suicide. The style of the narrative reflects the complicated networks in her mind, taking the reader down rabbit holes of memory all the way through. For me, the book was an honest and compelling account of her struggle to find equilibrium, but it could have done with some tidying up by a good editor as there were some glaring spelling and grammar mistakes.
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