Life Interrupted - A Bipolar Memoir (Paperback)

Samantha Smirin

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Samantha is stamped with a 'bipolar' label that becomes the trajectory for her tortured existence. For the next three decades she will wind through a maze of anguished suffering, accompanied by memory-effacing medical interventions in the form of electroconvulsive therapies, heaps of pills and repellent hallucinations. As her helpless family and loved ones watch, often in terror, Samantha yo-yos between acceptance and denial of her diagnosis. Time and again believing she is well, she plummets into the devastating chasm of her illness.

Life Interrupted is a deeply compelling memoir that brilliantly humanises the sufferer beyond the label. It is groundbreaking in the way the author shares the horrors of psychosis and unbounded mania, the fears of depression and the emergence of recovery.

This book will not only appeal to the over four million people diagnosed with bipolar in South Africa, but to the millions of people who are affected by loved ones with bipolar, as well as to everyone who reads it.

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Imprint:	Melinda Ferguson Books
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	May 2019
Authors:	Samantha Smirin
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-1-928420-39-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with illness Books > Biography > General Books > Local Author Showcase > Biography Promotions
LSN:	1-928420-39-7
Barcode:	9781928420392