Haldol and hyacinths : a bipolar life

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Haldol and hyacinths : a bipolar life

Title remainder

a bipolar life

Statement of responsibility

Melody Moezzi

Creator

• trueMoezzi, Melody, 1979-
• Moezzi, Melody, 1979-

Subject

• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• Bipolar Disorders
• trueBipolar disorder
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Ethnopsychology
• Family Relations
• trueIranian American women -- Biography
• Iranian Americans -- Psychology
• trueIranian-Americans -- Biography
• trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Medical issues | Mental illness
• Manic-depressive illness -- Cross-cultural studies
• Manic-depressive persons -- Family relationships
• trueMental illness
• trueMoezzi, Melody, 1979-
• Moezzi, Melody, 1979- -- Mental health
• truePeople with bipolar disorder
• Psychiatry, Transcultural -- Case studies
• trueScience Writing -- Medicine | Mental Health
• trueWomen with mental illnesses

Genre

• trueCase studies
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueScience Writing
• trueLife stories
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

• "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 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 encouraged to keep her illness a secret-by both her family and an increasingly callous and indifferent medical establishment. Refusing to be ashamed, Moezzi became an outspoken advocate, determined to fight the stigma surrounding mental illness and reclaim her life along the way. Both an irreverent memoir and a rousing call to action, Haldol and Hyacinths is the moving story of a woman who refused to become torn across cultural and social lines. Moezzi reports from the front lines of the no-man's land between sickness and sanity, and the Midwest and the Middle East. A powerful, funny, and poignant narrative told through a unique and fascinating cultural lens, Haldol and Hyacinths is a tribute to the healing power of hope, humor, and acceptance"--
• "Iranian-American activist Melody Moezzi speaks out on behalf of the mentally ill with a bracingly funny and poignant tale of her own suicide attempt, bipolar disorder diagnosis, and reclamation of her life"--

Tone

• trueOffbeat
• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueCandid
• trueWitty

Assigning source

• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

616.89/5

Index

no index present

LC call number

RC516

LC item number

.M62 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult