The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Our Family's Journey with Bipolar

✍ Scribed by Rowe, Penelope; Rowe, Jessica

• Book ID: 110294079
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781741156188

✦ Synopsis

An honest and inspiring personal account of living with bi-polar disorder.

There is nothing romantic, glamorous or even remotely colourful about manic-depressive illness.' - Penelope Rowe

I never felt embarrassed by Mum's illness but I did feel powerless when faced with her depression.' - Jessica Rowe

Penelope and Jessica Rowe have something in common, Bipolar disorder. Penelope has lived with it for over forty-five years although she was not diagnosed until her early thirties. Jessica has lived with it all her life - as the eldest child of an ill mother. This is their story about coping with an unpredictable enemy, and the way in which, with the support of family and friends, they managed to get through each day and survive.

Penelope brought up her three daughters as a single mother, struggled in a variety of jobs, published novels and short stories and, became a regular face on the wards of mental hospitals. Jessica unknowingly submerged her own sense of grief and...