Eyes Blue, Or Random Meanderings of a Manic Depressive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eyes Blue, Or Random Meanderings of a Manic Depressive write by Alan Reed. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Eyes Blue, Or Random Meanderings of a Manic Depressive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A colorful collection of verse and prose, Eyes Blue, or Random Meanderings of a Manic Depressive takes the reader on a heartfelt and introspective journey. The overriding message of these pieces is quite simple - acceptance is the way to inner peace. Author Alan Reed, who is afflicted with manic depressive syndrome, acknowledges and embraces his illness, not as a liability but as an opportunity to create something unique, poignant and beautiful. As a result, he has captured rare and wondrous ideas, thoughts and concepts in a manner never before associated with this particular mental illness.
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So write by Mark Vonnegut, M.D.. This book was released on 2011-09-27. Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling, and learning that willpower isn’t nearly enough. Here is Mark’s life childhood as the son of a struggling writer, as well as the world after Mark was released from a mental hospital. At the late age of twenty-eight and after nineteen rejections, he is finally accepted to Harvard Medical School, where he gains purpose, a life, and some control over his condition. There are the manic episodes, during which he felt burdened with saving the world, juxtaposed against the real-world responsibilities of running a pediatric practice. Ultimately a tribute to the small, daily, and positive parts of a life interrupted by bipolar disorder, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So is a wise, unsentimental, and inspiring book that will resonate with generations of readers.
Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See write by Juliann Garey. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A studio executive leaves his family and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to hide for 20 years. “You won’t be able to put down this exhilarating debut novel... brave and touching.” —Marie Claire In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd—a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter for a decade to travel the world, giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he’s been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years. The novel intricately weaves together three timelines: the story of Greyson’s travels (Rome, Israel, Santiago, Thailand, Uganda); the progressive unraveling of his own father seen through Greyson’s childhood eyes; and the intricacies and estrangements of his marriage. The entire narrative unfolds in the time it takes him undergo twelve 30-second electroshock treatments in a New York psychiatric ward.
Born On A Blue Day
Born On A Blue Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Born On A Blue Day write by Daniel Tammet. This book was released on 2007-01-09. Born On A Blue Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today—guided by the owner himself. Bestselling author Daniel Tammet (Thinking in Numbers) is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life and able to explain what is happening inside his head. He sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him the most unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man. Fascinating and inspiring, Born on a Blue Day explores what it’s like to be special and gives us an insight into what makes us all human—our minds.
Blindsight
Blindsight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blindsight write by Peter Watts. This book was released on 2006-10-03. Blindsight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
