Abyss to Zenith -- Up From Insanity by Reagan Smith
One Man's Triumph Over Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
If you, or someone you love, is suffering from a mental disorder, or manic depression, you owe it to yourself to become as informed as possible about the disease. Abyss to Zenith -- Up From Insanity -- One Man's Triumph Over Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Reagan Smith may be a source of good information for you.
A small, skinny boy grew up on a cotton farm in deep South Texas; his story is one you will never forget...
One crisp autumn night Reagan removed his clothes and shoes and crawled into his bed. A night light in the hall partially illuminated his room, and as he lay in bed, he noticed that his shoes weren't lined up perfectly side by side. Suddenly this began to bother him. Then he chastised himself thinking that it was silly that this would worry him. Nothing like this had ever upset him before. He realized that he was experiencing another abnormal thought, and this realization frightened him. He tried to go to sleep, but he couldn't stop thinking about those shoes. He felt an overpowering urge to get out of bed and line them up exactly beside each other. He tried to resist the thought, but the harder he resisted, the more commanding the thought became.
He wished that he could just forget the shoes and go to sleep. He could not. He was a prisoner of his own thinking. After an hour of torment, the boy timidly crawled out of bed and straightened his shoes. In a way, he felt relief; yet he also felt defeated. He had surrendered again to thoughts he knew to be irrational.
Reagan was becoming aware that something very wrong was happening to him. He knew he dared not tell anyone. He wondered if he was going crazy! Why would a person feel compelled to do things he did not really want to do?
He knew that crazy people were locked up in insane asylums, some for the remainder of their lives. He thought that, if he told someone what he had been experiencing, there was a chance he would be taken to one of those horrible places where people were put in straitjackets and given shock therapy. He could not risk it. He could never tell.
He didn't dare let anyone discover his abnormal behavior - his craziness - his growing insanity...
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Abyss to Zenith -- Up From Insanity by Reagan Smith | Almost A Revolution by Paul S. Appelbaum | Competence, Condemnation, and Commitment by Robert F. Schopp | Conducting Insanity Evaluations, Second Edition by Richard Rogers, Daniel W. Shuman | The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut | Ethics of Psychiatry by Rem B. Edwards | Guilty by Reason of Insanity by Dorothy Otnow Lewis | Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault | Madness and Modernism by Louis A. Sass | Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia by Emil Kraepelin | Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness by Peter McCandless | Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity by Randy Starr | I'm Not Suffering from Insanity...
I'm Enjoying Every Minute of It! by Karen Scalf Linamen | The Other Side of Sight by Jon D. Gemma | Plane Insanity by Elliott Hester | The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester | Psychological Evaluations for the Courts by Gary B. Melton (Editor), John Petrila, Norman G. Poythress, Christopher Slobogin | Punishing the Mentally Ill by Bruce A. Arrigo | Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. by Richard J. Bonnie, John C., Jr Jeffries, Peter W. Low | Wild Beasts & Idle Humours by Daniel N. Robinson
Adult Bipolar Disorders by Mitzi Waltz | The Bipolar Child by Demitri Papolos, Janice Papolos | Bipolar Disorder by James T. Stout | Bipolar Disorders: A Guide to Helping Children & Adolescents by Mitzi Waltz | Bipolar Disorders by Mario Maj, Hagop S Akiskal , Juan José López-Ibor, Norman Sartorius | Bipolar Disorder Demystified by Lana R. Castle | Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families by Francis Mark Mondimore | The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide by David J. Miklowitz | Bipolar Medications by Husseini K. Manji, Charles L. Bowden, Robert H. Belmaker | Bipolar Puzzle Solution by Bryan L. Court, Gerald E. Nelson MD | Depression Sourcebook by Karen Bellenir, Rhonda Rhea | Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman | Essential Psychopharmacology of Depression and Bipolar Disorder by Stephen M. Stahl, Nancy Muntner | Fevers of the Mind by Avery Z. Conner | The Life of a Bipolar Child by Trudy Carlson | Manic-Depressive Illness by Frederick K. Godwin M.D., Kay Redfield Jamison | Neural Misfire by Jeff D. Kazmierczak | New Hope for People With Bipolar Disorder by Jan Fawcett M.D., Bernard Golden Ph.D., Nancy Rosenfeld | Overcoming Depression and Manic Depression (Bipolar Disorder) by Paul A. Wider | Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder by George T. Lynn | Surviving Manic Depression by E. Fuller Torrey, Michael B. Knable | Why Am I Up, Why Am I Down? by Roger Granet, Elizabeth Ferber | Why Your Depression Isn't Getting Better by Michael R. Bartos | Win The Battle by Bob Olson, Melissa Olson | Yes You Can! by Richard Aaron Mead