{"product_id":"9781929882915","title":"Diary of a Mental Patient: A Journey Toward Acceptance","description":"\u003cp\u003eI was 26 years old when I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder. For the next seventeen years, I refused to accept the truth. I continued to drink excessive amounts of alcohol and use drugs of both the legal and illegal variety. I suffered from suicidal ideation and made several determined attempts to take my own life. As a result, I was often committed-usually involuntarily to psychiatric hospitals. In March of 2007, a small hospital in Brunswick, Maine, offered me hope that I could live - actually live - with bipolar disorder IF I would accept the fact that I have it versus denying it. Diary of a Mental Patient: A Journey Toward Acceptance is just what its title implies. Presented in diary format, it chronicles one full year of my personal life as I struggle toward accepting the fact that I have a lifelong mental illness. It is one thing to say: \"Yes, I have a mental disorder, but I have accepted it, and I can live with it.\" I quickly learned, however, that it is quite another to actually do it. Diary of a Mental Patient: A Journey Toward Acceptance offers an up-close and personal look inside the mind of a person with mental illness, the day-to-day struggle and search for reasons to live a life that is affected, usually negatively, by an incurable (but treatable) mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biographical Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040254050544,"sku":"9781929882915","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781929882915_p0.jpg?v=1763637935","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781929882915","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}