Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

✍ Scribed by Hinshaw, Stephen

• Book ID: 109523495
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 758 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250113368

✦ Synopsis

Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is one of the best books I've read about the cost of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I was profoundly moved by Stephen Hinshaw's story, written beautifully, from the inside-out. It's a masterpiece."

A deeply personal memoir calling for an end to the dark shaming of mental illness

Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for 18 years within his family—that his father's mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth, during Hinshaw's first spring break from college, he knew his life would change forever.

Hinshaw calls this revelation his "psychological birth." After years of experiencing the ups and downs of his father's illness without knowing it existed, Hinshaw...