Instant New York Times bestseller! The Emmy Award-winning star of
General Hospital chronicles his astonishing and emotional life
journey in this powerful memoir-an inspiring story of success, show
business, and family, and his struggle with mental illness. "This
shocking true story is General Hospital on anabolic steroids." -
Mehmet Oz, M.D., Emmy Award-winning host of The Dr. Oz Show Maurice
Benard has been blessed with family, fame, and a successful career.
For twenty-five years, he has played one of the most well-known
characters on daytime television: General Hospital's Michael
"Sonny" Corinthos, Jr. In his life outside the screen, he is a
loving husband and the father of four. But his path has not been
without hardship. When he was only twenty, Maurice was diagnosed
with bipolar disorder. In Nothing General About It, Maurice looks
back to his youth in a small town and his tenuous relationship with
his father. He describes how his bipolar disorder began to surface
in childhood, how he struggled to understand the jolting mood
swings he experienced, and how a doctor finally saved his life. For
years Maurice was relentless in his goal to be a successful actor.
But even after he "made it," he still grappled with terrifying
lows, breakdowns, and setbacks, all while trying desperately to
maintain his relationship with his wife, who endured his violent,
unpredictable episodes. Maurice holds nothing back as he bravely
talks about what it was like to be medicated and institutionalized,
and of how he learned to manage his manic episodes while on the set
of GH. Nothing General About It is also an incredible love story
about an enduring marriage that demonstrates what those vows-for
better, for worse, in sickness and in health-truly mean. Maurice
also pays tribute to the community that has been there for him
through thick and thin, and ruminates on the importance of both
inherited and created family. A shocking, riveting, and utterly
candid memoir of love, adversity, and ultimately hope, Nothing
General About It offers insights and advice for everyone trying to
cope with mental illness, and is a motivational story that offers
lessons in perseverance-of the importance of believing in and
fighting for yourself through the darkest times. Nothing General
About It includes a 16-page insert featuring approximately 50
photographs.
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