03368cam a2200361 i 4500 2086873782 TxAuBib 20250402120000.0 240620s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024026603 9781984880482 hardcover $30.00 1984880489 hardcover $30.00 (OCoLC)1440773041 TxAuBib rda Delano, Laura, 1983-, author. Unshrunk : a story of psychiatric treatment resistance / Laura Delano. Story of psychiatric treatment resistance. New York : Viking, [2025] ©2025. xiv, 337 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. The Mirror -- My First Therapist -- Do You Know What Mania Is -- Ask Your Doctor if Depakote and Prozac are Right for You(r Child) -- Be Worthy of Your Heritage -- The Debutante -- Asylum for the Insane -- Ambien -- Provigil -- Outward Bound -- The Haven -- Panopticon -- Medical Nemesis -- The Motions of Living -- The Anatomy of Treatment Resistance -- My Suicide -- A Fresh Hell -- Lithium -- Realistic Expectations -- Newly Sober -- The Choice Between Voluntary and Involuntary -- The Father of BPD -- A Good Patient -- Iatrogenic Process -- What the Hell Am I Doing Here? -- Wellness Check -- A Rapid, Gradual Taper -- Pharmaceutical Trauma -- Dear Mr. Whitaker -- My Healing -- Peer Support -- Connection -- Spiritual Disease -- Critical Thinking -- Recovering from Psychiatry -- Goodbye, Dr. Weinberg -- Here. "The powerful memoir of one woman's experience with psychiatric diagnoses and medication, and her journey to discover her true self outside the mental health system. Delano's initial bipolar diagnosis marked the beginning of a life-altering saga. For the next fourteen years, she sought treatment at the country's best psychiatric hospitals, collected an expanding catalog of diagnoses, and was prescribed a medication cascade of twenty-one drugs. Delano welcomed the pharmaceutical regimen in the hopes that it would bring her stability, peace, and treatment for what she'd been convinced was an incurable, lifelong disease. But as her symptoms became more severe and untenable, and eventually deemed "treatment resistant," she started to wonder if the drugs she was prescribed were contributing to her illness. Delano made the radical decision to uncover her baseline-the unadulterated state-of-being where she could experience the full intensity of feelings that she'd never truly known: happiness, sadness, anger, desire, and joy. It was a decision that would require her to leave behind the diagnoses and the drugs, all she had known for the better part of her life."-- Provided by publisher. 20250406. Delano, Laura, 1983- Mental health. People with bipolar disorder United States Biography. Mental illness Treatment United States History 20th century. Mental illness Treatment United States History 21st century. Bipolar Disorder Treatment United States.