Marrying Bipolar
The highs and lows of loving someone with a mental illness
Natasha David
On the last day of winter in 2005, John committed suicide in his car on a lonely side road of the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, Australia. He was six months shy of his thirtieth birthday. It was the culmination of nine years of struggle for John and his wife, as he battled undiagnosed mental illness, a gambling addiction, and an earlier suicide attempt. Despite his wife's love and attempts to understand his condition, in the end nothing could save John from his demons.
Author Bio
Natasha David was just 31 when her husband died after struggling for many years with mental health problems. The ensuing trauma plunged her into debilitating depression and anxiety. She investigated many routes in her search for recovery, ultimately becoming a certified kinesiologist. Having practiced this and meditation, she's been able to write the difficult story of her road to recovery. Natasha believes love and compassion can overcome any trauma.
Online: Facebook, Author Website, Twitter
Endorsements
This book is a rare, intimate and revealing journey that has taken courage and stripped back self-deception and ideology to face the very challenges many people avoid yet deeply reflect to free themselves from suffering into peace and freedom. An honest and enriching read.
Ani (Anikiko) Neradilkova, kinesiologist and musician
Promotional Plans
Author website, blog, social media. Reviews and articles in Australian Womens' Health (AUS), Womens' Health (US), Daily Telegraph Body & Soul (AUS).
USP
Offers a unique perspective of mental illness from a vantage point of the intimacy of a marriage, including relationship issues that can have an effect on the illness, and vice versa.
Competing Books
When Someone You Love Has A Mental Illness (9780874776959), by Rebecca Woolis
Penguin, 1992
Categories
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY(BIO026000) -> Personal Memoirs(BIO026000)
SELF-HELP(SEL011000) -> Depression(SEL011000)
MEDICAL(MED102000) -> Mental Health(MED102000)
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Publication Date
March 2016
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78099-584-7
$11.95 | £7.99
8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm
96PP
eBook
ISBN: 978-1-78099-585-4
$6.99 | £3.99
Library of Congress
2015954280
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