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Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
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"This book was truly unputdownable! There were a few times when I had to remind myself that this is a memoir and, holy shit, this actually happened to this guy. There's something about his unbridled honesty and his humanity that made me feel intima..."
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"One of the best memoirs about bipolar disorder that I have ever read."
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"Trying to put my thoughts together on this book and struggle to say more than: "read this." It hits all 3 of my top reading categories: memoir, mental illness, public defense. But the way that McDermott writes about his mental illness (with shocki..."
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“Corporate America wasn’t too sympathetic to my plight: there is no overdraft protection plan that covers I was extremely manic and purchased $800 worth of novelty T-shirts from Urban Outfitters—can you let this one slide? You can’t accuse yourself of fraud.”
― Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
― Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
“What about all the poor brothers and sisters across the city and the shit they had to deal with? Fuck, what about all the poor brothers and sisters in Syria for that matter? They sure had their hands full. What do you even call depression in a refugee camp? Depression felt as much a luxury as veganism and fair trade coffee.”
― Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
― Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
“The solution to mania is so simple yet so hard to come by. Just sleep.”
― Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
― Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
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