Review of Mind Race: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Bipolar Disorder

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REVIEW OF MIND RACE
Mind Race is the book written in first-person account to make it effective, based on
young adults who have experienced recent diagnosis of bipolar disorder, it is an informative,
empathetic and amiable. Jamieson relates to his own challenges and winnings, and provides
guidance on overcoming with expanding indications to understand the starting of the disease
(Jamieson & Rynn, 2006). Adding the first-person account with learning along with knowledge
about famous psychotherapists and counsellors, the author shall give as such important
information on diagnosis, about new treatment options attainable, and how to fight with
cognitive sickness at surroundings including home and school. Both personal narrative and
recent research forms a unique combination to help teenagers and tender adults handle
successfully with diseases and also to authorize with power to act instantly and honestly to get
the best possible medical attention. This can be true reflection of a person from the world of
bipolar disorder. Most of the people who are diagnosed with this disorder are people aging to
adults and people from young generation who encounters generation gap and often fail to
manage interpersonal relationships. This can be the reason they feel much of in securities
(Jamieson & Rynn, 2006). Patrick Jamieson has been diagnosed at his very early age of fifteen
years with the bipolar disorder and hence is well aware of the ups and downs and shares what he
has gone through in Mind Race. The versatile book Mind Race provides insights of teens who
have undergone diagnosis of having bipolar disorder, the story guides the readers in a very
informative way along with positive tint of humors, yet in a bureaucratic manner. Jamieson
discusses both his personal defiance and victory, and gives relevant suggestions on handling with
emerging symptoms of how to identify the onset of regular mood swings (Jamieson & Rynn,
2006). In common terms to create an uniformity, he offers the all new scientific researches of the
similar disorder, remedial options to cure, and ways to save oneself with the harmful