Reporter and bipolar disorder (BPD) sufferer Melody Moezzi talks about Unquiet Mind, a memoir of BPD by Kay Redfield Jamison. Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is a leading expert on BPD, and she was brave enough not only to admit that she has the disease, but also to write extensively about her experiences with it, Moezzi says. In this article from NPR, Moezzi talks about the book and how it gives a "brilliant" and "brutally honest" account...
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