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Memoir of the summer that the author’s teen daughter had her first full blown manic/psychotic episode. There are some really good spots in which the author describes the surreal experience of having a close family member develop mental illness.And then there are the parts that seem like they dragon. And then there is the BIG FAT ELEPHANT he never addresses. The author claims he and his daughter had no health insurance. He did not have a stable income nor a stable living arrangement. And yet, som
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This memoir accurately portrays the turmoil and calamity that befalls a family when one of them becomes mentally ill.
Greenberg's fifteen-year-old daughter suddenly becomes mentally ill; she has visions and is struck inexplicably "mad." Most of the events in the memoir occur during the summer of 1996 in Greenwich Village.
Sally briefly stays in mental hospital where she is given drugs that slowly calm her mania. Greenberg ponder other famous depressives, Robert Lowell, for instance, who wrote elo ...more
Greenberg's fifteen-year-old daughter suddenly becomes mentally ill; she has visions and is struck inexplicably "mad." Most of the events in the memoir occur during the summer of 1996 in Greenwich Village.
Sally briefly stays in mental hospital where she is given drugs that slowly calm her mania. Greenberg ponder other famous depressives, Robert Lowell, for instance, who wrote elo ...more
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