New book offers
immediate help for bipolar sufferers
Dr. Joyce Burland recently added
“You Me and Apollo: Hope Beyond Bipolar Disorder” to the
bibliographical listing for the Family to Family Program.
Here's how it's author describes it:
"When I was first hospitalized for the treatment of Bipolar
Disorder, I got handed this book that was supposed to
describe my illness to me. It was a very good book only I
couldn't read it because I was manic and had been awake for
three days. When I started getting better, I thought,
'Someone needs to write a book that you can read in an
emergency room or in the back of a police car that will tell
you just what the hell is going on. It needs to be short,
use small words and have really big print. Most of all it
needs to say, There is hope. Things will get better."
Chapter 1 – “Hope”
This book really should begin with Chapter 2, but there is
one thing I wanted to say first. There is hope. If you
have just been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and your
world is spinning wildly, there is hope. If you are
struggling with a loved one who seems to be on fire one day
and asleep the next, there is hope. Bipolar Disorder is a
serious illness but it is not your master. Modern medicine
and psychotherapy have given untold thousands of people
their lives back. There is help out there for you and there
is hope.
As I write this, I am a thirty-seven year old man who
battled for twenty-eight years with an enemy that came from
within me, but was not me. The enemy is called “Bipolar
Disorder.” Now that I know bipolar disorder for what it is,
and now that I am in treatment, I still have days that are
up or down but my life is mine again. I have a good job, a
beautiful daughter and I am no longer doing unexpectedly
destructive things to ruin my life. I have control over my
illness. Of all the treasures I have, the most important is
hope.
Bipolar sufferers have been through some mighty storms, but,
like adventurers stranded together in the mountains in
winter, they are not alone. The bonds of common experience
bind all of us who suffer or who care for the suffering.
You are not alone on the mountain. We are there with you,
thousands of us. If you wish for companions on your journey
to wellness, we are here. If you take nothing else from
this book, I want you to take hope. I believe in you. I
believe that you can survive Bipolar Disorder, prosper and
grow well. I believe that you have reason to hope.
Here's
the website for
"Apollo."
Here it is on Amazon.
You can contact the author, JD Stottlemire, at:
persiangoodbye@yahoo.com
