Healing Manic Depression and Depression: What Works Based on What Helped Me

by Mary Beth Smith

Overview

After unbearable pressure at home and at work, the author became manic and crashed her car into a tree thinking she would become reincarnated. After going to an incompetent psychiatrist, she had the enormous good luck to switch to the best psychiatrist in the county. Here she tells her own story along with chapters on what bipolar disorder is, how cognitive therapy helps and how 12 step programs with their emphasis on a spiritual experience help. She describes what mental health is and what self-actualization is, based on examples from Lincoln's life and Abraham Maslow's writings. The author describes how a person's neuroses and narcissism can be healed. But once healed, the bipolar person still needs medication in the same way a person with diabetes needs insulin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781491295649
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	08/13/2013
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Mary Beth Smith is a former computer programmer. She graduated from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She lives in Florida with her husband, novelist G. Ernest Smith, 1 dog and 3 cats. She enjoys reading, writing, painting and sailing.