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As a psychologist and an individual with mental health problems, Leesa
Abbott knows the difficulties and challenges patients with mental
illness have first-hand. During her career, she has worked in prisons,
schools, private mental health clinics, and universities. As a patient,
she’s been on medications, therapy couches, and in mental health wards.
Using
life-events to show her decline into mental illness, Professional
Patient: A Memoir of Bipolar Disorder illuminates an all-too-common
tragedy - a denial of mental health issues and avoidance of help from
outsiders.
Significant traumas, anorexia, substance abuse,
anxiety attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder are
revealed in this memoir, which uncovers her lifelong struggle to
survive on both sides of mental illness. This memoir offers an
intriguing look at the secrecy, shame, and every emotion in between that
she has felt as she deals with her own mental illness while treating
others at the same time.
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