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Along Came A Spider: A Personal Look At Madness

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ALONG CAME A SPIDER, A PERSONAL LOOK AT MADNESS is one of the most frightening books I have ever read. And yet it was a book I could not put down once I began to read it. It describes in detail all the horrors, pain and terror that a bout with bi-polar madness can bring a person. The author Maryanne Raphael wrote the book based on journals that she kept during the years when she was in and out of mental hospitals on three continents.
Finally her doctors introduced her to Lithium which served to keep her illness under control and she was fortunate enough to find several therapists who have helped her live a regular
life. In fact she has managed to raise a healthy successful son who has a Masters Degree, to travel throughout the world, to serve as a Co-Worker of Mother Teresa and write a book about her.
She now has five books in print and is working on a sixth.
ALONG CAME A SPIDER is sn inspiration to anyone suffering from a mental illness. I would recommend it to anyone who knows someone suffering from the disease.

Maryanne Raphael's "Along Came A Spider -- A Personal Look at Madness" is a testament to the therapeutic value of writing. This episodic account of psychotic breaks from reality as recorded in Maryanne's journal offers uncensored examples from inside the world of manic-depression. Although the book delivers what the title promises, her recovery from madness gets short shrift at the end. Very readable.