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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 155 EAN: 9781412089678 ISBN: 1412089670 Label: Trafford Publishing Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 172 Publication Date: 2006-06-12 Publisher: Trafford Publishing Studio: Trafford Publishing
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Good basic information Comment: This book takes the unique perspective of kids who are dealing with mental illness. It is comforting to read the stories of these children. However, as a parent newly coping with Bipolar disorder in my home, it was frustrating to have just the cause and affect of the disorder discussed. There is nothing out there for parents. I was hoping for guidance on how to cope myself, how to handle discipline, how to help my other children through the rages and how to keep my relationships with my bipolar child intact. This book provided none of these things. Customer Rating: Summary: Intense Minds - Extraordinary Comment: This book examines the minds of young people with Bipolar Disorder. The author's presentation is so much more than a description of symptoms often used to make a diagnosis. Anglada delves into the minds, thoughts, and feelings of these kids through interviews where the children provide honest, unfiltered accounts of the way they experience the world. The individual descriptions of such intense childhood experiences, each originating from a child's mind, left me with a deeper and more profound understanding of what these children go through in their day to day lives. This is book is a gift to anyone seeking to understand Bipolar Disorder from the perspective of the sufferer. Five Stars. Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent resource for School Psychologists to recommend Comment: Through their own words about growing up with Bipolar Disorder, children, teens, and adults offer an opportunity for others to empathize and act to support children with whom they may work in the classroom, at home, and in a medical or therapeutic setting. This is a quick read which includes descriptions of the illness and suggestions for helping young people successfully cope with their disorder. Customer Rating: Summary: Insight to Bipolar emotions and feelings Comment: Intense Minds was worth the money I paid for it the moment I received it. After opening the package I randomly started reading. I read two pages which left me with a stunning insight to the behavior of a specific incident which I had experienced with a bipolar individual. It was like a light bulb went on in my head. I realized why the behavior happened and can only guess how much pain that individual was feeling to react to the situation in that way. It finally made sense to me. Bipolar disorder seems to be about emotions, feelings and the processing of information. This book gives great insight into the emotions and feelings of young bipolar individuals. Bill Maddock Customer Rating: Summary: Compeling First Person Accounts Comment: If you want to experience mental illness from within the mind of the mentally ill, this book is it. These young writers vividly describe their lives from their personal perspectives, sharing details and nuances we rarely hear. Couple this book with Kate McLaughlin's "Mommy I'm Still in Here" and you get a full-spectrum family view of learning to live with bipolar disorder. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Young people with bipolar disorder and adults who grew up with the condition speak out to share how they experienced the symptoms of this illness during their youth, and how it affected their functioning in school, at home and with friends. Their insightful comments, woven together by the author, form a stunning picture of the young person's internal experience. The reader will come away with a new understanding of these young people and a renewed commitment to make a difference by reaching out to help. "Tracy Anglada has broken new ground with Intense Minds. While most books speak about the children and their feelings, hers is the first to capture the children articulating what they truly feel themselves: their impossible levels of frustration and irritability, their episodes of emptiness or manic energy, their severe difficulties in the academic environment, and their dread of night time due to their propensity to suffer horrific images and scenarios while sleeping. "One comes away with such admiration for these children and adolescents for soldiering on despite these terrible burdens, and for the author who took the time to listen and put their words to paper. Parents, clinicians and educators must read this first-of-its-kind book." Demitri F. Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos Authors of The Bipolar Child