Writing a prize-winning play, spending a week doing nothing but build Lego constructions, and sinking all his savings into wildly impractical money-making schemes - these are just some results of the periods of intense creative energy Brian Adams has experienced throughout his adult life. As a sufferer of bipolar disorder, Brian Adams has been hospitalized several times with debilitating depression and undergone electric shock treatment, and gained and lost 11 jobs. This account provides an insight into how it feels to experience bipolar disorder.
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Brian Adams first trained as a baker, then worked in youth and community services for many years.
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The Pits and the Pendulum is an memoir by Brian Adams. I originally read this for a psychopathology class in college, but in retrospect I can realize it can also be useful to other readers. To those interested in how a severe case of bipolar I disorder can affect one throughout his life, this book provides plenty of insight and is an interesting enough read as well (some memoirs in psychopathology can be quite dry sometimes). To those suffering from bipolar disorder (manic depression), you may find Adams' life experiences, troubles, triumphs, and all in between to be familiar.Adams' recalls building birdhouses during a manic episode--slamming his hand with the hammer accidentally yet continuing to work through day and night, going without sleep or very little sleep for weeks. The effects on his jobs and the risky investments that are not uncommon with bipolar sufferers are both discussed. Struggling with the deepest of depressions, suicidality, and with the ultimate highs of mania provides for an interesting if not provocative read. This is an example of a book read for class that I decided to keep rather than get rid of or sell used. It proves worthy of additional reads and as an excellent example of a memoir in bipolar disorder to those with any vested interest in the field.
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Being bipolar myself,this for me was anaccurate account of the Illness.It is always conforting to know you aren't the only one suffering from this often disabling disorder
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Manic depression can simply be described as a psychiatric illness which causes extreme swings in mood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acute ward, ward manager, ward office, manic depression Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Pits, Christopher Columbus, Alexander the Great, Pantiled Peep Show, Spike Milligan, The Last Time New!
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- Christopher Columbus (English Picture Readers) by John Tedman on page 49
- Winston Churchill (Twentieth-Century History Makers) by Simon Adams in Front Matter
- Paul Gauguin Art For Children by Adeline Peter on page 49
- Hemingway: a Life Story----*signed* by Carlos Baker on page 49
- Alexander the Great (QED Great Lives) on page 77
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- Introducing Mental Health: A Practical Guide (Jkp Resource Materials) by Caroline Kinsella on page 31
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