Today’s feature is a memoir, and it’s a tough one. My review copy of perfect chaos was provided courtesy of LuxuryReading.com, which also hosted the original (shorter) post of this book review on July 23, 2012 (available here).

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perfect chaos

The title really does say it all. The chaos at hand is the madness (quite literally) of bipolar disorder.

I have read more than my fair share of memoirs about mental illness and/or mental health. I find people’s struggles with their own brains/heads to be fascinating reading. Not in a voyeuristic, Schadenfreude-filled way (I don’t think), but from a place of deepest empathy – because I can’t imagine anything scarier in this world than getting lost inside your own mind.
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