Befriending Bipolar: A patient's perspective

What is it like to be overtaken by mental illness and lose yourself in madness? With staggering insight and brutal honesty, Oliver Seligman describes what insanity is like from the inside.

Diagnosed with type one bipolar at seventeen. Oliver has battled with euphoric manias, suicidal depressions, bewildering psychoses and the side effects of psychiatric medication.

In this enlightening book, he writes about how he found peace with an illness that destroys lives and sometimes ends them. Sharing what worked and what didn't work for him, as well as the mistakes he made and the traps he fell into. If you want to learn more about bipolar or depression from someone who has experienced it, this book is for you.

Dr. Rebecca Lawrence, of The Royal College of Psychiatrists, writes, "Seligman writes of the importance of being heard and also about the need for time and love, as well as medication and hospital admission when necessary. I strongly recommend this book to all psychiatrists."