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It's amazing to read about all the challenges Kris Rock faced and was able to overcome. I am very much like her in so many ways, it was like I had lived her life in another time zone. Very enjoyable and exciting read. I look forward to her next book. This book is a memoir of Kris Rock, who is a Type 1 Bipolar person. The book describes how bipolar disorder can affect each stage of human development, so that one bad decision or action can aff...

Book 3 is a light-hearted conclusion to my trilogy, and its purpose is to suggest that being bipolar doesn't have to be the end of the world. In fact, a bipolar person can live a rich, happy, and productive life, once certain contingencies are met, namely, trusted friends and professionals nearby and low dosages of appropriate medications taken without fail. In Book 3, I describe my move to Virginia with many pets and my remaining at-home chil...

This book is the second part of a trilogy about the author's battle with bipolar disorder. In this volume, the author struggles with depression as it affects every part of her life. The medications she is prescribed make her feel detached from her emotions and dumbed down. She learns ways to deal with these obstacles and finds better medications that don't have bad side effects. She is learning how to be a "high-functioning" manic-depressive.

By the time I was 50 I had been committed to psychiatric wards four times, attempted suicide a dozen times, divorced twice, roved from job to job and home to home, subjected myself to analysis by dozens of therapists and psychiatrists, used sex and drugs freely as needed to control my moods, took dozens of psychotropic medications, slept with 100 men and women, and spent several fortunes. I continued to look for the perfect drug to control my ...