{"product_id":"2940152596540","title":"Inching Back To Sane: A Memoir of Mental Illness","description":"\u003cp\u003eI am a 44-year-old author of fiction and non-fiction. The first book I wrote was \"Through the Withering Storm\" which was about my life with bipolar disorder, a crippling mental illness that seemed to take everything I loved in life away from me. I lost friends, relationships, the comforts of a family and my grip on reality because of this illness. It crept up on me slowly as I was growing up for many years and my life was nearly impossible to manage andI was severely depressed a lot, but when I was 18 I got very ill and was committed to a hospital four times. I wrote down the story of this phase of my life in the book, \"Through the Withering Storm\". When I finished the book and got it to print, there were a lot of questions from people as to what happened after, and others wanted to see more of what experiencing the illness was like, so I wrote this book, \"Inching Back To Sane.\" When released from a hospital after an extended visit, there is a journey that takes place, a long and arduous one, but thankfully for me, not an impossible one. The concept of a long journey of slow steps to get one's life together was where I got the title of this book from, and I hope it can bring relief from suffering and a new understanding of what mental illness survivors go through. I have to admit the book as it sits isn't as perfect as I would like it to be, but many people have said it still gives a clear message of what I went through. This book won the 2014 New York Book Festival's 'Honorable Mention' in the category of memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leif Gregersen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103067947248,"sku":"2940152596540","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152596540_p0.jpg?v=1764023778","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152596540","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}