About the book: 2017 / This is a frank story about the life of a person with bipolar disorder. A life in which there are incredible emotional peaks - and equally incredible lows. A life in which feelings are acute to the limit, and failures lead to black depression. Kay Jamison has experienced it all herself - depression, mania, attempted suicide. As a psychiatrist, she devoted herself to the study of mood disorders in general and bipolar disorder in particular..