Introduction Over the years, Del has refused to send him bus fare, changed her phone number, and asked him not to come home. Now her manic-depressive son, Mark, needs a lifeline again, and she must decide how much more she’s willing to give. Through the four seasons, Night Navigation takes us into the dizzying world [...]
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Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk
Selected as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Washington Post Book World, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Recipient of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award and a forWard Award from the National Mental Health Association About the Book In his award-winning book, Lincoln’s Melancholy, Joshua Wolf [...]
Madness by Marya Hornbacher
Introduction In 1998, at age twenty-four, Marya Hornbacher published the Pulitzer Prize–nominated, best-selling Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. Now, still a young woman, Hornbacher tells the story that until recently she had no idea was hers to tell: that of her life with Type I ultra-rapid-cycle bipolar disorder, the most severe form [...]
