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Resurrection and Redemption: Overcoming Mental Illness and Regaining Dignity

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This book will be among the decades' great narratives of a family's struggle with mental illness. It documents the worst forms of fraud and abuse committed to most vulnerable, as well as the highest forms of compassionate, scientific, and rationale approaches to healing. The book further dispells the myth that bipolar disorder is untreatable, demonstrating that while a cure is not yet available, help and progress are well within reach. Both the co-authors have been changed by their experiences, as will the reader. (...)

"Ressurection and Redemption" captures the delima of coping with mental health issues in todays society. Dr.Opelar sets the tone in the first chapter when he states that we as a people are still in the dark ages with our attitudes towards mental heath problems. This book opens the doors to the real suffering on a day to day basis by the person with the mental disability and thier family. Like "The Burning Bed" by Francine Hughes who took domestic violience out of the closet and enlightened us forever, "Redemption" exposes the myths associated with the mentally ill, gives us a first hand glance at the patients suffering from their own point of view,and shows in an intimate, candid way of the Ehrlich's valient effort to navagagate the fractued mental health system that exists today. We see through Rebecca's eyes the cruel blow that nature inflicted upon her and her brave struggle for release from the bondage of a misunderstood disorder of one part of her body, her mind. We find we are not alone when dealing with this problem. There was a time in the not to not too distant past when physical disabilities were scorned upon by society. Hopefully, with time and enlightenment we will soon look upon mental illness as just another chronic desease, not a dark and foreboding secret.