Memoir of Madness: The Rise and Fall of a Bipolar Professional

By Paul Stark

This is the true story of one man who held a Top-Secret security clearance with access to some of this Nation's most sensitive secrets. Unknown to anyone, he also had a degenerating mental illness that took him from the halls of power to the halls of mental hospitals. Paul Stark was a technology whiz kid who rose quickly from obscurity to success. He then crashed into utter and complete insanity. In Washington D.C. Paul Stark handled contracts for the Federal Government worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He was a confidential informant to the FBI, negotiated contracts worth more than $100 Million, and grazed the power politics of Washington. He also spent years in and out of mental hospitals. This is a powerful and graphic depiction of mental illness.After a grotesque and powerful psychotic breakdown Paul was faced with the task of crawling back to sanity, a feat that many doctors considered impossible. In the ensuing years Paul proved the doctors wrong. He proved that a man with severe mental illness can still lead a meaningful life.In this book, you will not only read Paul's story, but through it you will get an inside view of operations in a modern psychiatric hospital and the patients who pass through. This is a must-read for anyone interested in mental illness in general, bipolar and schizoaffective disorders in particular, the interplay of religion and psychosis, and anyone seeking to know how a person can make peace with a devastating illness and go on to live a meaningful life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521016534
• ISBN13: 9781521016534
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"