Bi-Polar Girl E-Books

Currently available in PDF Format

This is Part 1 of the Bi-Polar Girl story. It describes the long downhill road that eventually brought me to the massive breakdown I experienced at the beginning of 2005.

It is meant to be read in three ways:

  1. EITHER the reader is too unwell to read and process text (I have been there) so the book tells the story in bright little cartoons known as emoticons - i.e. simple line drawings that communicate and elicit an emotional response
  2. OR the reader is able to read and process text, so the story is also told in short sentences written in straightforward language. Writing such a HUGE experience in such short text format was tentamount to "capturing the ocean in a thimble" as my son put it.
  3. OR the reader is well enough to engage in self-reflection so the story also asks carefully constructed questions that enable the Bi-Polar Girl story to become the reader's story.

 As the introduction to the book says, this little book was born from a desire to bring a smile in the waiting rooms of psychiatric clinics and hospitals.

The book does not contain any information about Bi-Polar Disorder as such because there are plenty of places where that information is available (see Resources). The only thing I felt I could contribute to the understanding of Bi-Polar Disorder was my own personal experience with my own individual version of the illness.

May you indeed find your way back to laughter.

 

Currently available in PDF Format

This is Part 2 of the Bi-Polar Girl story. It describes the long arduous recovery journey I am still on from the massive breakdown I experienced at the beginning of 2005.

Interestingly, I wrote Part 2 before I wrote Part 1. Somehow, I needed to come to terms with where I was before I could come to terms with what had brought me there.

It is meant to be read in three ways:

  1. EITHER the reader is too unwell to read and process text (I have been there) so the book tells the story in bright little cartoons known as emoticons - i.e. simple line drawings that communicate and elicit an emotional response
  2. OR the reader is able to read and process text, so the story is also told in short sentences written in straightforward language. Writing such a HUGE experience in such short text format was tentamount to "capturing the ocean in a thimble" as my son put it.
  3. OR the reader is well enough to engage in self-reflection so the story also asks carefully constructed questions that enable the Bi-Polar Girl story to become the reader's story.

 As the introduction to the book says, this little book was born from a desire to bring a smile in the waiting rooms of psychiatric clinics and hospitals.

The book does not contain any information about Bi-Polar Disorder as such because there are plenty of places where that information is available (see Resources). The only thing I felt I could contribute to the understanding of Bi-Polar Disorder was my own personal experience with my own individual version of the illness.

 May you indeed find your way back to laughter.

 

Available in PDF format

 

Conversations with Batty was born from a desire to make friends with my illness in order to understand it better and live with it more successfully.

The book does not contain any information about Bi-Polar Disorder as such because there are plenty of places where that information is available (see Resources). The only thing I felt I could contribute to the understanding of Bi-Polar Disorder was my own personal experience with my own individual version of the illness.

I felt moved to write these conversations down as they occurred, without any censorship, and I didn't cheat (even when some of the stuff I was writing was very uncomfortable for me).

Little did I know where it would lead me....