FROM THE INTRODUCTION When I was diagnosed at age 19, my parents went a bookstore and bought me a pile of books about bipolar. I threw them away in disgust (actually, exchanged them for books of poetry)--not because I wasn't curious about bipolar, but because all the books treated the subject with clinical rubber gloves. They were dry, annoying, and made me feel like a disease, not a person. I wrote this book because it's the book I should have been given when I was diagnosed. Excerpted from Welcome to the Jungle: Everything You Wanted to Know about Bipolar but Were Too Freaked Out to Ask by Hilary Smith All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
