Up From the Ashes (eBook)

One Doc's Struggle with Drugs and Mental Illness

Peter J. Dorsen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
152 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-0-9990980-1-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Up from the Ashes: One Docs Struggle with Drugs and Mental Illness is a tangible saga of one doctors struggle with such an illness. It is a story that is readily understandable. What makes this book special is that Dr. Dorsen is a physician whose illness was so severe he lost his license to practice. But in Up from the Ashes he reveals his ultimate process of understanding and exposition making it both alarming and freeing. Generally, in this society physicians are not readily given to such self-revelation. Dr. Dorsen, by doing so, offers his readers the chance to make such a journey via his persona. In the process, manic depression, its earlier appellation, becomes less anathema and more representational and freeing that any of us, even a professional, can suffer by mixing drugs and mental illness. In Dr. Dorsens case as a physician, it is from such a privileged position in our society that he so openly reveals what can happen to any man or woman innately suffering from such a condition.

Inhalt

Praise for Up from the Ashes

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface: When a Doc Goes Nuts

Chapter 1; Who Said I Wanted to Evolve?

Chapter 2: The Fight Against Bipolar Disorder

Chapter 3: An Overview: Broad Brush

Chapter 4: Home Rage

Chapter 5: Counterpoint to Anger

Chapter 6: A Day of Reckoning: Relapse

Chapter 7: One Doctor’s Search for Humanity

Chapter 8: Comorbidity, Coexisting Addiction and Mental Illness

Chapter 9: A Matter of Redemption – I Finally Get It

Chapter 10: Relationships in Recovery

Chapter 11: The Wedding

Chapter 12: Back from the Ashes

Epilogue: Cognitive Dysfunction in Bipolar Disorder

Appendix I: Categorization of Mood Disorders

Appendix 2: Drugs and More Drugs

Resources and Further Reading

About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2018
• Vorwort: Faruk Abuzzahab
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• Schlagworte: addiction • ADHD • Anxiety • Bankruptcy • Bipolar Disorder • Couples Therapy • Depression • Divorce • Doctors and Addiction • Drug Abuse by Doctors and other professionals • exercise addiction • infidelity • Lamictal(lamotrigine) • Manic Depression • marriage • Mental Illness and Chemical Dependency • MICD • Professionals and addiction • Seroquel(Quetiapine)
• ISBN-10: 0-9990980-1-2 / 0999098012
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9990980-1-1 / 9780999098011