51 Years Of Bipolar Disease: A Survivor's Story

51 Years of Bipolar Disease By: Gregory Phillip Jones Gregory Phillip Jones’ severe depression began at age nine. With the exception of his mania (at age twenty-eight) – an ecstatic, joyful experience which lasted two weeks – his depression lasted until he was fifty-nine-years-old. In 51 Years of Bipolar Disease: A Survivor’s Story, Gregory writes about his severe depression in childhood, his joyful, sublime manic experience, and the horrifying depression which followed the mania and lasted for decades. Gregory’s third psychiatrist, who treated Greg for twenty years, was never able to stabilize his emotional life, despite the use of dozens of anti-depressants and anti-psychotic medications. Lithium prevented a reoccurrence of mania, but destroyed his kidneys. To keep from committing suicide, Gregory underwent forty-nine or fifty ECTs (electro-convulsive treatments) for his depression. In 2015, Gregory’s new psychiatrist was able to stabilize him and he is now healthy for the first time in many decades.

• | Author: Gregory Phillip Jones
• | Publisher: Rosedog Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 24, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 242 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1480973394
• | ISBN-13: 9781480973398