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A memoir of love and madness living with bipolar disorder

Summary: In 1992, Rahla Xenopoulos was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Despite the devastating diagnosis, she sought education on her affliction. Although she found an abundance of literature on various mental illnesses, none of it seemed applicable to her. This situation inspired her to write a book chronicling her ongoing efforts to come to terms with a disease that is, in effect, a life sentence. The book recounts her upbringing in an eccentric, loving Jewish family, her struggle with bulimia, anorexia and self-mutilation, her attempts at suicide, finding true love and, finally, the 'crazy, utterly.

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ISBN: 9781770221895 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1770221891 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781770221901 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1770221905 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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Publisher: Cape Town : Random House Struik, 2009.

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Formatted Contents Note:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Prelude; Chapter 1: The Happy Potter doctor; Chapter 2: The old man; Chapter 3: Family Fenster; Chapter 4: Unwillingly to school; Chapter 5: An awfully small, awfully silly adventure; Chapter 6: My silent knight; Chapter 7: What dreams may come; Chapter 8: Lights, camera, action; Chapter 9: Cutting remarks; Chapter 10: A dirty, self-loathing sickness; Chapter 11: My heart belongs to Daddy; Chapter 12: Backwards into the darkness; Chapter 13: More Happy Potter; Chapter 14: Prometheus unbound; Chapter 15: Suicide notes.

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