{"product_id":"9780007358243_full-blown-me-and-my-bipolar-family","title":"Full Blown: Me and My Bipolar Family","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Lovelace, along with his brother and both his parents, is bipolar. This is his extraordinary and vivid memoir of life within his memorable, maddening, loving and unique family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull Blown is Lovelace's poignant, humorous, and vivid account of growing up and coming to terms with the highs and lows of manic depression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid's father was a Princeton-trained theology professor deemed too eccentric for the ministry and his mother battled depression all her life. Manic episodes were part of family life – they called them the 'whim-whams'. David was a teenager when his first serious depression hit, and at college when he first became manic. He ran to escape it – to Mexico, South America and then New York, to drugs and alcohol – before he realised the futility of running.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA father himself, a son and a brother, David's matter-of-fact approach to growing up surrounded by the unique creativity often sparked by manic depression is compelling. In the vein of Stuart, A Life Backwards and Augusten Burroughs’ Running with Scissors , David’s poetic ability to detail the unique highs and harrowing lows makes a remarkable and gripping read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Lovelace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284879589525,"sku":"9780007358243","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007358243.png?v=1776992094","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007358243_full-blown-me-and-my-bipolar-family","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}