Befriending bipolar : a patient's perspective

Summary: "What is it like to be taken over with mental illness and completely lose yourself in madness? With staggering insight and brutal honesty, Oliver describes what insanity is like from the inside. Diagnosed with type one bipolar at seventeen, Oliver has battled with euphoric manias, suicidal depressions, bewildering psychoses and the side effects of psychiatric medication. In this enlightening book, he writes about how he found peace with an illness that destroys lives and sometimes ends them. Sharing what worked and what didn't work for him, as well as the traps he fell into, he brings hope to anyone affected by bipolar or depression."--