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Welcome to the Jungle
Welcome to the Jungle: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bipolar but Were Too Freaked Out to Ask | Hilary T. Smith
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Bipolar is currently the most commonly diagnosed emotional/psychiatric condition, and diagnosis tends to come when one is in one’s late teens or early 20s. And yet almost nothing has been written about it from eye level and a young person’s perspective. This book brilliantly fills that gap. “When I was diagnosed at age 19, my parents went to a bookstore and bought me a pile of books about bipolar. I threw them away in disgust (actually, exchanged them for books of poetry)—not because I wasn’t curious about bipolar, but because all the books treated the subject with clinical rubber gloves. They were dry, annoying, and made me feel like a disease, not a person. I wrote this book because it’s the book I should have been given when I was diagnosed.” With chapters of advice on everything from how to get off the floor after the blow of a bipolar diagnosis to how to think about psychiatry and manage your meds to how to deal with thoughts of suicide to “hippy shit” like meditation, herbs, and other non-medical bipolar helpers to navigating the healthcare system, this is the first self-help book by a bipolar young adult to other bipolar young adults.
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Aloisi_tribe
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We are still working on prepping the library for the summer reading program. This was the display I and two of my coworkers finished today. We were told to make it look like a rain forest/jungle. Can anyone guess the book we paid homage to in this display?

Kaye Nope. I‘m stuck. 6y
Aloisi_tribe @Kaye Jumanji. I wanted to add a giant snake but one of the ladies I work with is really scared of snakes. She said last year, she was in the library‘s bathroom and a snake FELL OUT OF THE CEILING right onto the floor of the stall she was in. I‘d probably be deathly afraid of snakes too if that happened to me. 6y
Kaye I kept trying to figure out what Duce would have to do with the jungle. Now I know. I‘m not scared to death of snakes but I would t want one falling on me when I‘m in the bathroom or anyplace else. 6y
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Peterdamien
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I love the idea of a plainclothes hospital staffer whose job it is to be NORMAL.