Bipolar Blessing - A Memoir of Transilience

Book excerpt: Bipolar Blessing is a twenty-five year reflection on bipolar disorder as it has ravaged, transformed, and blessed the author. The chapters are laden with insights that only come from seeking sanity and meaning for so many years. Though P.S. Lutz's perspective is at times critical and well informed, it is his artistic, romantic leaning that makes this psychological account vitally worth reading. The writing is lively and poetic; the story is heartbreaking and unabashedly hopeful. This is a book for bipolars, psychologists, friends and family of either, and for anyone interested in a creative angle on a clinical condition.