Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So

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More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his remarkable story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling as a pediatrician, and learning that willpower isn t nearly enough.Here is Mark s childhood spent as the son of a struggling writer in a house that eventually held seven children after his aunt and uncle died and left four orphans And here is the world after Mark was released from a mental hospital to find his family forever altered At the late age of twenty eight and after nineteen rejections Mark was accepted to Harvard Medical School, where he gained purpose, a life, and some control over his condition.The brilliantly evoked events of Mark Vonnegut s life are at once perfectly unique and achingly relatable There are the manic episodes, during which he felt burdened with saving the world, juxtaposed against the real world responsibilities of running a pediatric practice At times he felt that his parents lives would improve if only they had a few hundred bucks in their bank account, while at other points his father s fame merely heightened expectations that he be better, funnier and crazier than the average person.Ultimately a tribute to the small, daily, and positive parts of a life interrupted by bipolar disorder, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So is a wise, unsentimental, and inspiring book that will resonate with generations of readers. Free Read Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So by Mark Vonnegut For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I bought this book for my son who loves Kurt Vonnegut, has bi polar disorder and is in med school He finished it in a little over a day without sacrificing his studies and promptly bought a copy for me and my husband also bi polar I was concurrently scared and hopeful as I read Vonnegut s account of his disease Living with the disease in my household, I still don t understand what s going on most of the time I appreciated the author s assertion that most people do not realize the heroism I bought this book for my son who loves Kurt Vonnegut, has bi polar disorder and is in med school He...In the 1960 s, Mark Vonnegut, son of iconic author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., went to British Columbia to start a commune He dropped a lot of acid, went crazy, and ended up on the psych ward getting electro shock treatment and Thorazine His first memoir,The Eden Express A Memoir of Insanitychronicles all that.After the book was published, Mark recovered well enough to get into Harvard Medical School and is a practicing pediatrician till today That may sound like a happy ending, but no life wraps In the 1960 s, Mark Vonnegut, son of iconic author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., went to British Columbia to start a commune He dropped a lot of acid, went crazy, and ended up on the psych ward getting electro shock treatment and Thorazine His first memoir,The Eden Express A Memoir of Insanitychronicles all that.After the book was published, Mark recovered well enough to get into Harvard Medical School and is a practicing pediatrician till today That may sound like a happy ending, but no lif...my rating is horribly harsh so sorry, mark vonnegut it s just that your memoir tells me nothing it tells me a bit of what it s like to be psychotic, but that s not hard to get knowledge it also tells me a bit about what it s like to have been a doctor before and after the advent of managed care that s easy to get knowledge too it tells me a little bit about kurt vonnegut and being his son, but i am not very interested in that a kurt vonnegut fan might be, but she might want to be warned t my rating is horribly harsh so sorry, mark vonnegut it s just that your memoir tells me nothing it tells me a bit of what it s like to be psychotic, but that s not hard to get knowledge it also tells me a bit about what it s like to have been a doctor before and after the advent of managed care that s easy to get knowledge too it tells me a little bit about kurt vonnegut and being his son, but i am not very interested in that a kurt vonnegut fan might be, but she might want to be warned that there are just little vignettes, not all of them meaningful i like fragmented, episodic, disjointed writing like the next person, but it s a hard style to pull off not because it s hard to write in fragments but because it s hard to preserve a sense of n...A book with no segues I m not sure if it s just Mark Vonnegut s style, or if this indicative of someone living with mental illness, but the writing had this staccato quality Ideas jumped from one paragraph to the next There would be sentences in the middle of paragraphs that didn t seem to connect to much around it.It s kind of like the old timey comedians whose routines were Set up, Punchline, LaughterSet up, Punchline, Laughter lather, rinse, repeat Except this book isn t exactly fun A book with no segues I m not sure if it s just Mark Vonnegut s style, or if this indicative of someone living with mental illness, but the writing had this staccato quality Ideas jumped from one paragraph to the next There would be sentences in the middle of paragraphs that didn t seem to connect to much around it.It s kind of like the old timey comedians whose routines were Set up, Punchline, LaughterSet up, ...There are certain books you read during your life that stick with you For me, one of those is one I first read while still in college, Mark Vonnegut s The Eden Express A Memoir of Insanity First published in 1975 and reissued in 2002 , the book is a frank and compelling story of a young man s descent into schizophrenia and his recovery from it.In the introduction to that book, Vonnegut, the son of author Kurt Vonnegut, described himself as a hippie, a son of a countercul...Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So is certainly not a perfect book The premise is different from what is actually delivered and the writing style is jumpy However, I liked all that I felt like the jumpy writing style was either an intentional choice, echoing the thought process in psychotic and manic episodes, or something that was a result of those episodes and had just become second nature to Vonnegut I am probably wrong Either way, it felt like a great way to gain ins Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So is certainly not a perfect book The premise is different from what is actually delivered and the writing style is jumpy However, I liked all that I felt like the jumpy writing style was either an intentional choice, echoing the thought process in psychotic and manic episodes, or something that was a result of those episodes and had just become second nature to Vonnegut I am probably wrong Either way, it felt like a great way to gain insight into such a thought process and was a very familiar one for me as I have ADHD.I felt like JLSWMIOMS wasn t as much about his mental illness as I expected There was of course a great deal devoted to it, all well written, but the medical career he embarked on seemed to shine That s where he really grabbed me I am not the biggest fan of doctors especially due to the way capitalism and medicine hold hands nowadays but Vonnegut seems...If your child were sick, would you choose a 60 year old pediatrician who is a former commune starting hippie, is the son of a famous author, came from a somewhat dysfunctional childhood, got into Harvard Medical School despite poor grades, and most important of all, is certifiably crazy I think I would I believe that if I were to meet him, I would really like and trust this guy.Mark Vonnegut first wrote about his battle with mental illness in a 1975 book, The Eden Express This followup came If your child were sick, would you choose a 60 year old pediatrician who is a former commune starting hippie, is the son of a famous author, came from a somewhat dysfunctional childhood, got into Harvard Medical School despite poor grades, and most important of all, is certifiably crazy I think I would I believe that if I were to meet him, I would really like and trust this guy.Mark Von...This is a nice little romp through the life of Kurt Vonnegut s son Mark He was diagnosed with Schizophrenia in 1971 when he had three psychotic breaks in a short amount of time He didn t have his fourth break until 14 years later In those 14 years he managed to get accepted to Harvard medical school and become a pediatrician Not bad.The book covers topics like mental illness and addiction, but not as extensively as it might seem from the title The bulk of the focus is on what s wrong with t This is a nice little romp through the life of Kurt Vonnegut s son Mark He was diagnosed with Schizophrenia in 1971 when he ha...Maybe we re not really hearing voices but certainly we all know what it s like to be out of synch with the world Vonnegut s book is written in that slightly out of focus way as the title says like someone without mental illness onlyso His wry observations illuminate how anyone, diagnosed and labeled or...Strong first two thirds, wandering last third Powerful description of psychosis and the slide into it Having finished it, I still flipped back and reread page 48 because it s honest and beautifulchokengtitiktitikchokeng 47 48 Part of getting better from being crazy included the realization that my life might be a lot longer than I had thought and that I probably wasn t going to get out of anything by having the world end of Western civilization collapse.It was too bad I was twenty five, hadn t taken the right cour Strong first two thirds, wandering last third Powe...

Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
  • English
  • 05 October 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 224 pages
  • 0385343795
  • Mark Vonnegut
  • Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So