Title: Wonderful world of manic-depression
Product review: This subject matter is one that I was researching in order to get an honest portrayal of what it is like for a person to live with this disease, but this book was not it. What I got were glowing platitudes about her many friends who supported her, her travels and romances, and how she grieved the loss of those marvelous highs when she was manic. There is hardly a word about the cost to her in terms of her personal relationships as there is not one instance in which she may have alienated friends and family because of her disease. Instead everyone was so understanding, even in her professional life. Despite a suicide attempt, I got no picture of what this disease has truly cost her. I also wondered with her many detailed scenes of drinking alcohol, if she ever considered that that was exacerbating her symptoms or the efficacy of her medication. She seems to spend far too much time ruminating about her disease and glorifying it, and not enough time in the solutions.
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