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Finding Sanity

John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder

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For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them. In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone in a disused kitchen, set about an experimental treatment for one of the scourges of mankind - manic depression, or bipolar disorder. That doctor was John Cade and in that small kitchen he stirred up a miracle. John Cade discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar disorder - lithium. It has stopped more people from committing suicide than 1000 help lines. Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health - the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness - and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story.

©2016 Greg de Moore and Ann Westmore (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd History & Commentary Medical Medicine & Health Care Industry Mental Health Mood Disorders Pharmacology Professionals & Academics Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Science & Technology Health Medicine Bipolar Fiction
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As someone who's taken lithium for bipolar disorder, I found this book fascinating, and it gave me something to talk about with my psychiatrist. It was very gripping and narrated well.

Interesting history of lithium

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