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Manic-Depression: Illness or Awakening

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I read this book before it went out of print about 8 or 9 months ago. I felt that the author made some really good points. As a manic-depressive myself I felt good that he was able to function well enough to shelve the medication. I am working up to that myself. Like Kelly I don't feel that the Mental Health Establishment has all the answers in fact I think that that is far from the case. Often times they are trying to grasp the wind. Where Kelly and I differ is that I allow Christ to guide me and Kelly uses a host of other things like Eastern and Native American religious beliefs and the studying of some of the great minds of psychiatry in the past and present and a third thing being both yoga and TM. Like Kelly I want to control my own destiny and I have strong beliefs just as he has even if they are different. It was great to see a book that was new and fresh for a change like this one was. I think Mr. Kelly is a bright light in a darkness that is the current Mental Health Establishment

This is an excellent account of a journey and struggle with Manic Depressive Illness. This book is in a conversational easy to read format. Robert keeps the interest of the reader from front to back cover of this book. Robert expressed all my fears, denial of the illness, and doubts. This book gave me a foundation on some of the things that can insight and episode of mania. I am now attempting to devise my own fitness and diet plan to combat the illness. Thanks Robert. It is really unfortunate for others struggling with the manic depression that this book is almost impossible to obtain. I am happy I already own a copy.

After years of suffering and being told that I was crazy, someone has finally written a book that untangles the mystery of manic-depression. Kelly has taken the blinders off and has given us a new way to understand. Walking us through his experience and logically sorting out the confusion that surrounds this illness. No where else have I ever been validated for my own experiences and my own insights on what is happening to my mind. If anyone truly whats to understand their their experience this book is a must read.

If you've tried and failed to get help from the psychiatric, psychological, self-help, etc. approach that assumes that something is wrong with you please read this book written by a man who speaks from his own first-hand experience. He feels that what is commonly termed manic-depression may not be an illness in every instance but may represent an opportunity to break thru to a spiritual awakening and a new level of consciousness. The doctors mean well, but to a man with a hammer everything tends to look like a nail. Put down your hammer and try a new perspective. It may be just what you've been searching for.

After several episodes of mania followed by depleting depression, a boyfriend/lover suggested I was bipolar. Sensing intuitively that his diagnosis and that of the medical profession was somehow wrong, I set out to discover how something as powerfully enlightening in my life could be so destructive to those around me. What I discovered through Robert E. Kelly's book is the true path to spirtual awakening. A must read for anyone who wants to take control of his/her life!

I found this book to be quite interesting, especially Kelly's insights into the "deductive qualities of the subjective mind". But as I was reading into chapter 6, he went on about a "silent scream experiment" where he was supposedly able to grasp the attention of other passengers on a train he was riding by his mental vibrations. This simply turned me off due to it's high improbability. I then decided I would give the book another try and continued to read on. I finally became disgusted when in the same chapter the author tells his account of becoming invisible while hospitilized due to the donning of a mystically charged ring and being able to escape the hospital for a brief period of time while invisible. I don't deny this author has suffered from some sort of psychological and or spiritual dillemma, but I just found these two accounts in chapter 6 to be simply nonsense. If it wasn't for these accounts I probably would have finished the book and gave it more stars. Quite a waste of 8 dollars.

An excellent, well written book that provides some balance to the idea that bipolar mania is simply an abnormal mental disease. Provides some grounding and knowledge for those who have experienced spiritual "enlightenment" during their mania.

Best wishes to all bipolars searching for more insights and solutions.