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A 3 page paper that summarizes 3 points that Karen Cronkite makes on mood disorders in her book On the Edge of Darkness and the offers a personal response to their application to the writer's life. No additional sources cited.
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narratives o people who have either lived through have a mental disorder and the process of recovery or who are a close relative who has observed the symptoms of the
disorder in a loved one. Cronkite adds depth to this process by also interviewing physicians about the clinical and biological aspects of the disease. The section of her book
on mental disorders focuses particularly on bipolar disorder and it characteristic behavior of extreme maniac highs, which are followed by clinical depression of the blackest and most severe category. Three
points stand out in this section of Cronkites text. The first of these is that alcoholism is so frequently a comorbid condition of bipolar disorder that one might easily imagine
that it is mandatory. This is because people caught in the darkness of the depressed part of the cycle self-medicate in order to ease their pain. What they seldom
realize, until after addiction is already well established, is that alcohol is itself a depressant, so it ultimately only makes depression worse. Also, as the narrative indicate, other substance abuse
also frequently becomes comorbid. The elements involved in addiction and depression seem to be synergistically related. Secondly, Cronkite (1994) makes the point that the general public continues to have
difficulty in viewing the behavior of people who suffer from mental disorder, such as bipolar, in terms of illness. Susan Crosby, the wife of a bipolar victim, comments concerning the
people who advised her to leave her husband, Lindsay, because of his wild, philandering behavior during his manic periods, saying, "They would not tell a woman whose husband had cancer
to leave him," yet they did not hesitate to tell Susan Crosby that she should leave her husband because of his behavior when he would be caught in the manic
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