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    Welcome to the Jungle: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bipolar but Were Too Freaked Out to Ask

    By Hilary Smith

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    Bipolar is currently the most commonly diagnosed emotional/psychiatric condition, and diagnosis tends to come when one is in one’s late teens or early 20s. And yet almost nothing has been written about it from eye level and a young person’s perspective. This book brilliantly fills that gap.

    “When I was diagnosed at age 19, my parents went to a bookstore and bought me a pile of books about bipolar. I threw them away in disgust (actually, exchanged them for books of poetry)—not because I wasn’t curious about bipolar, but because all the books treated the subject with clinical rubber gloves. They were dry, annoying, and made me feel like a disease, not a person. I wrote this book because it’s the book I should have been given when I was diagnosed.”

    With chapters of advice on everything from how to get off the floor after the blow of a bipolar diagnosis to how to think about psychiatry and manage your meds to how to deal with thoughts of suicide to “hippy shit” like meditation, herbs, and other non-medical bipolar helpers to navigating the healthcare system, this is the first self-help book by a bipolar young adult to other bipolar young adults.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateMay 1, 2010
    ISBN9781609251635
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    • 5/5
      good insight from a first person view.
    • 4/5
      Hilary is hilarious. She's done her homework and she has the credibility. Good writer, too. This book is good for anyone with questions about bipolar disorder, not just those who have it. It's informative, well researched, authentic and fun.But I took off one star because Hilary won't come clean about recreational drugs and bipolar. She won't straight-up tell people that recreational drugs need to be off limits if you have bipolar, and that includes pot. She's on the fence about it. Look, cannabis makes bipolar worse, not better. My medical marijuana doctor says so, and he is a major advocate of the kronik.Hilary's advice on taking vacations from your meds, "do it safely" is like telling someone that when you jump out of that 30-story building, just make sure you land on the 29th floor. WRONG. I don't have bipolar but if I did, I'm certain I'd struggle with staying on my meds. I wouldn't need encouragement to go off them. The manic part sounds pretty fun...until I have to get ECT to bring me back from the brink of death because I'm suicidally depressed. I would definitely recommend this book to readers but with the caveat that she's a little off when it comes to partying. It just doesn't sound like this illness is anything to play with.
    • 5/5
      The best book about bipolar for other bipolar people OR people that love and care about them. Written by a bipolar woman who really shares her perspective and NAILS IT! If you suffer from bipolar or know someone who is, some insight into who they are and who they think...how they suffer--MUST READ!!!!!
    • 3/5
      Basic info, tacky humor

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