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Mental illness, debt – and a breathing space
Author(s) -
Ogden Joy
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.496
Subject(s) - mania , bipolar disorder , psychiatry , memoir , psychology , psychoanalysis , debt , medicine , mood , literature , art , finance , economics
People with bipolar disorder often find a manic or hypomanic episode manifests itself in a massive spending spree. As Kay Redfield Jamison, a clinically bipolar professor of psychiatry and mental health expert remarks in her book, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness: ‘So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.’