Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (787 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743446607 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Visit her Web site at lizziesimon. Lizzie Simon, a graduate of Columbia University, was the creative producer of the Obie Award-winning Flea Theater in Manhattan. She recently was a consultant and field producer for the MTV special "True Life: I'm Bipolar," which was inspired by Detour. The recipient
But that wasn't enough: Lizzie still felt alone in the world, and largely misunderstood. Having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager, she longed to meet others like herself; she wanted to hear the experiences of those who managed to move past their manic-depression and lead normal lives. By all appearances, Lizzie Simon was perfect. Part road trip, part love story, Detour is a fast-paced, enduring memoir that demystifies mental illness while it embraces the universally human struggle to become whole.. She had an Ivy League education, lots of friends, a loving family, and a dazzling career as a theater producer by the age of twenty-three. So Lizzie hits the road, hoping to find "a herd of her own." Along the way she finds romance and madness, survivors and sufferers, and, somewhere between the lanes, herself
John Berendt author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Lizzie Simon's ingenious inquiry into the nature and treatment of manic depression -- her own as well as others' -- is a spellbinding revelation.The Village Voice Utterly unselfconscious, funny, and harrowing.Peter D. Kramer author of Listening to ProzacDetour does for bipolar disorder what Prozac Nation did for depression -- scopes it out from the viewpoint of someone who is young, hip, and vulnerable.
A Bipolar life. Author is "cuter than a bugs ear". Great Book. Timothy J. O'Brien Unfiltered, Non-scripted. A RAW analysis of how this (beautiful) girl dealt with her bipolar illness.She didn't sweeten anything up. She tells it LIKE IT ISthe Good & the Bad. I really like that.And she describes her symptoms precisely, in a way that we can relate to. I read it in 2 days.. "Timely first person account of life with bipolar illness" according to Kcorn. Lizzie Simon writes movingly about her struggles with bipolar illness. This book should receive plenty of attention, since more and more children and teens are being diagnosed with the condition and yet there are relatively few good first person accounts out there. This book is the best I've read so far amd a must for anyone wanting to know more about what it is like to deal with the challenges of handling the ups and downs of being bipolar. The wrong meds can be harmful or even disastrous for bipolar individuals, especially some of the drugs routinely prescirbed for ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder (some bipolars ar. Must Read for All BiPolar Families Shirley G. Gripping personal account. It took courage for Ms Simon to put this story out to the world. Good luck to her.