My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward : : a Memoir

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Call Number: 921 Lukach, Mark, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Lukach, Mark
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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"Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. The fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that she was the devil and that her loved ones were not safe. All she wanted was to die. Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was born, Giulia had another breakdown, and then a third a few years after that. Pushed to the edge of the abyss, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended. A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor, radiant with compassion, and written with dazzling lyricism, Lukach's is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife's mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers' faith in the power of love"-- Provided by publisher.

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a compelling story submitted by 21621031390949 on July 19, 2018, 10:53pm Heartbreaking story of mental illness, written by a young man whose much-loved wife becomes psychotic and is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He tells the story with deep feeling, and does a good job of making himself - and his wife - real for the reader. The writing itself isn't fabulous though, and he sometimes gets bogged down in minutia.
Still, it was a very worthwhile read for me, and I recommend it.