Am I Sane Yet?
An Insider's Look at Mental Illness
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Mental illness doesn’t have to be a prison sentence.
International award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. He has been diagnosed with severe depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. During this time, he has held down leading jobs with world broadcasters.
Am I Sane Yet? is essential reading for patients already suffering from depression, as well as for their relatives and friends. It is also a must for those who are hiding their depression because of the stigma that continues to haunt the mentally ill.
With brutal frankness Scully reveals the plight of patients he has met on the inside and investigates the therapies and drugs they have been given to try to ease their pain.
Customer Reviews
Thank you!
This was an exceptional book and very enlightening for anybody, as we all have to deal with some level of depression at some point in our life and it,s very helpful to be able to see where we or our loved ones fall on the scale. It also helped me make sense of other people's behavior that I found odd or distressful in the past, like my father's and other family members, as well as my own from time to time.
You can't help but feel a lot of empathy for anyone struggling as much as John and his family and I will certainly cut people a little more slack in the future, just knowing they may be struggling with something so misunderstood. Yes we should have Runs for Depression!!
Thank you John for your honesty. I hope you sell a million copies of this book!!!