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Finding Sanity

John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder

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Finding Sanity

By: Greg de Moore, Ann Westmore
Narrated by: Paul English
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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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This was a great book, I was really engaged from the beginning. It was a well-balanced telling of John Cade's life moving between the motivations for his pursuit of his scientific exploration into bipolar disorder and possible cures as well as immersing you deep in the world of his lived experience both here in Australia and in the dark period of his life as a prisoner of war in the Changi prison camp. The writing took you to the era and vividly drew a picture of what life would have been like. I highly recommend it.

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