Download e-book for kindle: Diary of a Mental Patient: A Journey Toward Acceptance by Christina M. Solak-Goodwin,Lynn Ross

i used to be 26 years outdated while i used to be first clinically determined with bipolar disease. For the subsequent seventeen years, I refused to simply accept the reality. I persisted to drink over the top quantities of alcohol and use medications of either the felony and unlawful type. I suffered from suicidal ideation and made a number of made up our minds makes an attempt to take my very own lifestyles. therefore, i used to be usually committed-usually involuntarily to psychiatric hospitals. In March of 2007, a small health center in Brunswick, Maine, provided me desire that i may stay – truly dwell – with bipolar sickness IF i'd settle for the truth that i've got it as opposed to denying it. Diary of a psychological sufferer: A trip towards attractiveness is simply what its identify implies. provided in diary layout, it chronicles one complete 12 months of my own lifestyles as I fight towards accepting the truth that i've got a lifelong psychological ailment. it really is something to claim: "Yes, i've got a psychological ailment, yet i've got approved it, and that i can reside with it." I fast discovered, in spite of the fact that, that it truly is particularly one other to really do it. Diary of a psychological sufferer: A trip towards reputation deals an up-close and private glance contained in the brain of an individual with psychological sickness, the day by day fight and look for purposes to stay a existence that's affected, frequently negatively, by means of an incurable (but treatable) psychological illness.