The Tattered Tapestry: A Family's Search for Peace with Bipolar Disorder

The Tattered Tapestry: A Family's Search for Peace with Bipolar Disorder - Paperback

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The Tattered Tapestry: A Family's Search for Peace with Bipolar Disorder

The Tattered Tapestry: A Family's Search for Peace with Bipolar Disorder - Paperback

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Book Overview

"I am no longer a poet. I have lost all my words."

Vibrant, intelligent, and active, nineteen-year-old college student Karla Smith embraces the future with unbridled enthusiasm. But when she suddenly loses interest in everything she always loved, her family is understandably alarmed. Where is the bubbly, optimistic Karla they all know and love? Weeks go by and Karla hides under her bedcovers, refuses to engage in any of her passions, and returns only a wall of silence to her family's pleading questions. Eventually diagnosed as bipolar, Karla experiences the illness's major symptoms of recurring depression and periodic mania. Her parents, Fran and Tom, and her twin brother, Kevin, endure her tragic lows and euphoric highs for seven long years before Karla loses the battle with her illness, committing suicide at the tender age of twenty-six. The Smith family weaves threads of pain, confusion, grief, and hope into a moving portrait of the challenge and tragedy of bipolar disorder. But it's Karla's own story-her brave fight against the debilitating disorder and her enduring struggle for balance, acceptance, and peace-that lies at the heart of this book, offering hope and strength for everyone who suffers from bipolar disorder and their loved ones.
ISBN9781583483855
Author Tom Smith
PublisheriUniverse
GenreBiography, Relationships, and Self-help & personal development
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2007
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Tom Smith

Three-time New York Times best-selling authors Roger Connors and Tom Smith have written more on the sub­ject of personal accountability than anyone. Known by many as "the Oz guys" based on their breakthrough best seller, The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability, Connors and Smith have spent the last 25 years coaching and consulting some of the top business leaders and organizations in the world. They are the cofounders of Partners In Leadership, LLC, a leadership training and management con­sulting company recognized as the premier provider of accountability training services around the world. The leaders they have worked with have gone on to become industry superstars and are hailed as some of the most influential people in their areas of expertise. Connors and Smith have led consulting engagements and major organizational interventions throughout the world. They both received MBA degrees from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.

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