The Pits and the Pendulum

A Life with Bipolar Disorder

Brian Adams

Paperback: £18.99 / $29.95

2002, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-104-8, BIC 2: JM MBPK VFJB

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Not A Survivor's Guide. Prologue. 1. Legoland and Holes in the Head - Mania. 2. The Pits - Depression. 3. Lost in Fife - The Beginning. 4. Flaming Buckets - Seventies Psychiatric Hospital I. 5. Pay and Free Uniform - Seventies Psychiatric Hospital II. 6. Talking to God - Suicide. 7. Christopher Columbus, David Livingstone and Me - Work. 8. One of Us - Famous Manic-Depressives. 9. Babes in my Moods - Paranoia. 10. Not Work, Not Working - Breakdown. 11. Sideways Through the Torphins HaLF-edj - Ambulance Journey. 12. Pantiled Peep Show - Modern Psychiatric Hospital Building. 13. Psychos! Acute Psychiatric Ward. 14. Tack Short of a Fitted Carpet - Synonyms. 15. The Last Time I Saw Linda - Electroconvulsive Therapy. 16. Sweet Violets - The Psychotherapist. 17. Sweating it out with the Professionals - Doctors and Nurses. 18. …and Mopped up by the System - Hospital Appearances. 19. Concessionville - Getting Around. 20. Show Folks - Social Wipeout. 21. The Choir Lady - Making Things Worse. 22. Only a Salt - Prescription Drugs. 23. Another Way of Being - Something to Celebrate?

Author information

• Brian Adams

Subject areas

• Health, Social Work and Social Care
• Psychiatry and Psychology

Keywords

• bipolar disorder,
• challenging behaviour,
• counselling,
• depression,
• mental health,
• psychiatry,
• social care,
• social work

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