Michael is a 23 year old paramedic and he has Bipolar Disorder. He has written this small 184 KB Amazon Kindle eBook in 2012 to help raise awareness of Bipolar Disorder and Mental Illness. This book is not a clinical text but a personal account of Michael's own disease, experiences and treatment.
You do not get a detailed medical explanation of Bipolar Disorder but you gain a wonderful insight into what it means to actually live with this disease. Because you are getting the story from the horse's mouth, you get to understand how it feels from the patient's experience.
Michael explains that being Bipolar is different for each patient. How the disease manifests is different with each patient. Bipolar people have differing symptons and triggers. Their mood swings can be fast or slow and their changes happen at random. The medication they are perscribed is very hit or miss. Michael encourages Bipolar people to play around with their medication dosage until they become stable in mood. It is all about getting the balance right.
Michael tells what it is like living with Bipolar Disorder, day in, day out. He is very critical of doctors who do not understand his disease, the way hospitals are run and people's reliance on religion. He explains what effect legal drugs have on Bipolar people and why so many smoke tobacco.
Michael's writing style is bad. The structure of this book is awful. Michael rambles on at great length and he looses focus. He is very verbose and this book reads like a work in progress. There was no proof reading done before publication and he uses the wrong words in many places making the text a guessing game. The number of typos is embarrassing.
I am glad that Michael wrote this book as it raises the public's awareness of a hidden disability. This book is an okay read and I vote it 3 stars.
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