All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness

✍ Scribed by Hamilton, Sheila

• Book ID: 109039376
• Publisher: Seal Press
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 922 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781580055857

✦ Synopsis

A reporter chases the biggest story of her life --her husband's descent into mental illness.
Even as a reporter, Sheila Hamilton missed the signs as her husband David's mental illness unfolded before her. By the time she had pieced together the puzzle, it was too late. Her once brilliant, intense, and passionate partner was dead within six weeks of a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, leaving his nine-year-old daughter and wife without so much as a note to explain his actions, a plan to help them recover from their profound grief, or a solution for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that they would inherit from him.
All the Things We Never Knew takes readers from David and Sheila's romance through the last three months of their life together and into the year after his death. It details their unsettling descent from ordinary life into the world of mental illness, and examines the fragile line between reality and madness. Now, a decade after David's...