Heather's Rage: A Mother's Faith Reflected in Her Daughter's Mental Illness

By Leslie Byers

Book Overview

When Heather was nineteen months of age, her parents Steve and Leslie Byers wondered at her volatile mood swings -- moods later discovered to be associated with a mental illness called bipolar. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975390716
• ISBN13: 9780975390719
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Brown Books Pub Group
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Enlightening

I picked up this book and ended up reading all the way through it in one sitting. The powerful emotions reflected clearly in the text, and I learned not only the inside story on one family's struggle with a disease but also the woeful status of care and support for mental health issues. I thank the writer - I'm enlightened to support when possible issues like this.

Empowerment

I having live this very same experience was amazed to find this was not something I had to continue to go through alone. I understood each and every detail of this book as I had lived myself. I could relate! Just finding out I was not alone gave me the strength to move forward and help others. Thanks for writting the book.

Powerful and Honest

After reading Heather's Rage, I not only know more about how bipolar affected "Heather," I know more about how her mental illness affected the entire family. This truthful portrayal made me feel as if I, personally, experienced each step of the process along the way. No parents should have to deal with a nonsensical legal system at the same time as attending to their child in crisis.

Excellent

The book had me to stop and think about the relationship that we have with our children. And sometimes we cannot be friends with them when they require a parent. It was a moving account that made me realize that all of us have problems, within our families. And working through these problems gives us strength and determination in making love a reality.

Heather's Rage: A mother's faith reflected in her daughter's mental illness

Heather's Rage helps people understand that having a loved one or them self that has a mental illness is no one's fault. It is a illness that can be inherited just like any other illness. It also helped me see how long I went undiagnosed with bipoler.