You will instantly fall in love with Kay as she tells her very painful story. The book provides much needed hope for bipolars. Kay has severe Bipolar I with psychotic episodes and due to her medication, her therapy, and the supportive people in her life, she lives a very normal and happy life today. To me, the book was very comforting, since I suffer from the same type of illness.

This is a very large and comprehensive book about many aspects of suicide. In fact, Kay herself attempted suicide. Kay helps us to understand "the suicidal mind" and who is more likely to be at risk. This book reaches very deep into the study of suicide.

The book takes clinical research and incorporates this information into practical information on the prognosis, course, and potential complications of bipolar disorders in the modern era. I not only recommend this book for clinicians but lay people as well as it is very informative.

The most thorough and wide-ranging discussion for lay readers about the interplay of the physical and emotional elements of depression and manic-depression. His presentation is illuminating, and the case histories demonstrate his sensitivity and skill as a clinician.

You learn to test the meaning and usefulness of various thoughts you have during the day and to change the thinking patterns that keep you locked into dysfunctional moods, behaviors, or relationship interactions. In addition, you learn how to make changes in your life when your thoughts are alerting you to problems that need to be solved.

I read this book as a hard cover when it was aptly named The Key to Genius Manic Depression and the Creative Life. I found it very informative and well written in layman's terms. In the end one learns that nothing comes easy and with out a price even for the best of them.

Colette Dowling watched depression destroy her husband's life and leap to the next generation to nearly destroy her daughter's--until dramatic help was found. Now her ground-breaking book offer the same lifesaving help to the millions who still suffer depression and related disorders--which include panic, anxiety, phobias, PMS, alcohol and drug abuse, bulimia, and obesity.

Lynnora Sumblin has triumphed over a troubled childhood, deeply scared as a victim of incest between the ages of nine and fifteen. This experience led to a manic depressive condition in her young adult years that required years of medical, psychological and spiritual treatment and counseling.

Overcoming Depression and Manic Depression (Bipolar Depression) The Non-Drug Approach will help you get well. This book is invaluable for people who cannot or will not take medication, but want to get well. It is also a must for those who use medication, since medication alone is not a cure-all.

God Head is an in-the-skin look at madness in a young man's life, a first-person narrative of manic depression and suicidal drives. The narrator is a young college student, driven to desperation by chemical imbalances, who throws himself in front of a subway, then surviving as a paraplegic.

Essential facts about lithium treatment; question and answer format. The Information Center has a nice variety of booklets.

The author was diagnosed as manic-depressive in his early twenties: here he refutes the common medical opinion that mania is an illness, instead presenting a case for mania as a reflection of an 'awakening' psyche. His spiritual, psychological and intellectual studies are reflected in a strong presentation which makes a case for an alternative view of manic tendencies.

A look at a number of 19th century poets, writers, and composers who were bipolar. An emphatic analysis of the creativity that emerges from a little madness and the horror from too much. Highly recommended.

Lead singer and songwriter of the Kinks and one of the greatest rock and rollers of all time. Part autobiography, part social history, part psychological thriller, this elusive and daring book exposes rock stardom as the heaven, hell and purgatory it is. Davies is openly manic-depressive.