Manic Man: How to Live Successfully with a Severe Mental Illness - Couverture souple

Wegner, Jason

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ISBN 10 : 1913615413 ISBN 13 : 9781913615413

Editeur : Cherish Editions, 2021

Synopsis

Manic Man: How to Live Successfully with a Severe Mental Illness is an account of Jason Wegner's experiences living with a severe mental illness: bipolar I disorder.

The story begins with an outline of Jason's normal life and then describes the hypomanic stage of his illness. The mania starts with his experience of taking the dangerous psychedelic drug LSD and takes off a few weeks later in Tanzania, Africa. He is in a full-blown manic episode while in Africa, and his behaviours and thoughts captured demonstrate this. Weeks of mania continued after he was home from Africa until he was tricked into going in an ambulance and taken to the hospital's emergency wing. He would be hospitalized in the acute psychiatry ward for 57 days, and seven months of depression follows his hospitalization.

To lift himself out of his severe depression, his psychologist, Dr. Kerry Bernes, develops "The Octagon of Life," which is the eight areas of life that he gets Jason to focus on. Following the plan, Jason gets out of depression and experiences post-traumatic growth and becomes a more successful person than he was before his diagnosis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jason Wegner is currently a university student at the University of Lethbridge, working towards becoming an English Language Arts Teacher. His writing experience includes participating in fourteen major writing courses at the University of Lethbridge and producing over 50 undergraduate essays. Jason was diagnosed with bipolar I disorder in late August of 2017. After a year and a half of recovering from his manic episode, he began writing his memoir about the experience, which he has called Manic Man: How to Live Successfully with a Severe Mental Illness. Jason also launched his speaking career in 2019 and has been a keynote speaker on seven separate occasions, one of which was to a crowd of 250 people. Jason is a first-time author.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cherish Editions
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913615413
• ISBN 13: 9781913615413
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
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• Personne responsable: non disponible