Mark Vonnegut's memoir of insanity
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I finished The Eden Express during a too-long lunch break ... I couldn't put it down!!!In his afterword, Mark writes that definitions of mental illnesses have drifted and refined since his 1970s diagnosis of schizophrenia. Today the diagnosis of bipolar/manic depressive would apply to his three peculiar psychotic breaks.My psychiatrist diagnosed me as bipolar last year ... after some sort of weeklong mental breakdown/visionquest ... so some of the events Mark wrote about felt Wildly familiar to ... (more)
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Last update: 05/26/2005