Saritaksu Design Communication, 2003. Good secondhand condition.

This is the poignant story of a young girl brought up in Bali who progressively develops manic depression or bi-polar disorder. It vividly describes what it is like to spin out of control and lose friends and the change of a college education, without really understanding what is going on. And then, the descent into lethargy and what Winston Churchill described as the black dog of despair and depression. Above all, it describes the horror of being in thrall to a medical regimen that has no answer but to prescribe a lifetime of powerful medication with all its terrible side effects.

It is also an inspiring story of courage and love. ... Eventually through her own and her family's endeavours, research led them to an American integrative doctor and to the knowledge of how the chemical imbalance that causes this disease can be largely controlled, if not cured, through non-drug means or nutritional supplements, mainly vitamins, amino acids and certain other natural substances.