Haldol and Hyacinths A Bipolar Life

Name: Haldol and Hyacinths A Bipolar Life
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ISBN: 9781583334683

ISBN-10: 1583334688

ISBN-13: 9781583334683

Edition: 2013

Authors: Melody Moezzi

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With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences with both clinical and cultural bipolarity. Melody Moezzi was born to Persian parents at the height of the Islamic Revolution and raised amid a vibrant, loving, and gossipy Iranian diaspora in the American heartland. When at eighteen, she began battling a severe physical illness, her community stepped up, filling her hospital rooms with roses, lilies, and Iranian hyacinths. But when she attempted suicide and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, there were no flowers. Despite several stays in psychiatric hospitals, bombarded with tranquilizers, mood-stabilizers, and antipsychotics, she was…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English







no good reason



absent patterns



white phosphorus



the quiet room



treading water






fat-free hell



don't fuck with the pancreas



vital signs



glaciers in July



sleeping with the enemy






christmas in tehran



toward a post-9/11 world



law school dropout



hoods and hurricanes






hooping for peace



don't worry, be happy



call the travel channel






naked in the crisis center



no more screaming



ward ignored



going back to ohio






clear blue stormy skies



#iranelection



stabilized volatility


Acknowledgments