Play Book Tag discussion

This is a brave and courageous book of personal struggles with manic depressive disorder by someone in a profession you might not intuitively associate to having mental health problems.

Jamison details her struggles with mental health and also her struggles being open about her mental health. She does so in a very clinical and matter of fact way, not adding any perspective or history into mental illnesses diagnosis or the future of dealing with mental illness.

I know people that this book has helped and I am very glad I read it. I also recommend Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind, which has a mixture of personal and reporting voice and goes deeper into the history and future of mental illness and mental illness medications. Both authors though experience a wonderful support network of friends and family and recognize they are very fortunate to have this as well as responding positively to medication.