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| Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher |
   
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| The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath |
  
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| Manic by Terri Cheney |
  
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| Touched With Fire by Kay Jamison |
  
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#1
Aug 18, 2016, 10:40 AM
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Seems like our discussion of An Unquiet Mind has mostly finished so it'd be good to choose a next book so we can get it before Labor Day.
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Aug 18, 2016, 10:54 AM
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Unfortunately "Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls" is not available in most libraries and cost over $150 on Amazon so left it off the poll. But feel free to leave other suggestions for next poll along with what you voted for this time around.
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Aug 19, 2016, 10:53 AM
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Manic by Terri Cheney (I may have spelled her name wrong) is a fun one. So is madness by Marya hornbacher. Also I feel like Vonnegut's son wrote a book about his struggle with mental illness. They believed in his day that it was schizophrenia but now that it was bipolar illness. It's an interesting read. I thing it's called "the Eden express"
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Aug 19, 2016, 11:11 AM
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I'm moving next week so I might be slow to get the book, but I'm sure the new library will have it.
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Aug 19, 2016, 12:14 PM
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Aug 20, 2016, 04:41 PM
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There's a book I heard of today called My Bucket Has Holes: Living With Bipolar II.
I've never read it, but I plan to give it a read soon. It seems like a lot of books have to do with bipolar I not bipolar II, so just throwing it out there. Sent from my LGLS990 using Tapatalk |
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Aug 22, 2016, 01:28 PM
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Bumping it so people who were away last week can see it
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#8
Aug 22, 2016, 04:32 PM
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Great suggestion! I guess I never realized that there were no bp2 books! That'll be a fun read! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Aug 24, 2016, 11:03 AM
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Hi!
I just remembered the book, " the rules of the tunnel". It's good. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Aug 24, 2016, 03:06 PM
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I voted "Touched With Fire". Diagnosing famous dead people. Creativity (what more is there).
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Mania kills cells. Brain cells die. Memories become more reduced conceptually, making more efficient use of limited means. Memories shape our reality. Our memories are more or less split in two by abstractions, conceptual reductions. Mood states with memories, concepts, attached. Memories of pain and those of joy. It causes instability, changeability. Fearing that will leave an emptiness between pain and joy and a greater divide. See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me. |
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Aug 25, 2016, 01:17 PM
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Only had 4 votes, shall we go ahead and pick "Madness"? |
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Aug 25, 2016, 02:03 PM
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Sounds good to me
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Aug 25, 2016, 04:32 PM
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"Madness" it is.
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Mania kills cells. Brain cells die. Memories become more reduced conceptually, making more efficient use of limited means. Memories shape our reality. Our memories are more or less split in two by abstractions, conceptual reductions. Mood states with memories, concepts, attached. Memories of pain and those of joy. It causes instability, changeability. Fearing that will leave an emptiness between pain and joy and a greater divide. See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me. |
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Aug 25, 2016, 05:47 PM
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It'll be at least two weeks before I get a chance to start the book. I'm leaving Monday and it will take two to three days to get there...then there's the unpacking to do.
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Aug 25, 2016, 10:09 PM
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Aug 25, 2016, 10:44 PM
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Sounds good
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Aug 27, 2016, 03:53 PM
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I would love to join in (assuming open?) Take care -Bol
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Aug 28, 2016, 09:11 AM
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Welcome!
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Aug 29, 2016, 06:14 PM
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Welcome Bolivar! We will start Madness in a week or so but there are several other threads with the books we have read so far which are still open--An Unquiet Mind, The Skeleton Cupboard and He Wanted the Moon. Feel free to add some suggestions for next month's poll
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