| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
310 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue -- The weight of a comma -- Consider the colon -- Suspension points -- Un-joined -- Ask your doctor -- Cracked -- Doctor's orders -- Treatment/options -- Becoming bipolar -- When the happy pill ends -- On suicidal ideation -- "Sick" -- On solitude (and isolation and loneliness [and brackets]) -- On stigma (and disclosure) -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
"Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses -- anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder. Pathological is the gripping story of what it was like to live with those diagnoses, and the crippling impact each had on her life. It is also a rigorous investigation into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) -- psychiatry's "bible," the manual from which all mental illness diagnoses come"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index. |
| Subject |
Fay, Sarah -- Mental health.
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Mentally ill -- United States -- Biography.
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Mental illness -- Diagnosis.
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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9780063068681 (hardcover) |
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0063068680 (hardcover) |
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