Just before my college semester as a psychology major began this year, I decided to do some reading about the field to prepare myself for what was to come in my college career. In my search, I found Electroboy, a memoir of mania by Andy Behrman about his personal struggle with a mental disorder and finding therapy. Electroboy is a book that would not only appeal to those who have an interest in psychology but instead, anyone who knows a friend or family member who may suffer from a mental disease such as mania to really understand what they experience in their everyday struggle. Deciding on Electroboy was not a hard decision due to the neon yellow cover and striking title that draws you to it's contents.
Andy Behrman suffered from mania and document
Luckily, surviving a hard to handle drug addiction, a jail sentence, and the betrayal of all of his friends, Andy found a therapy that while almost killing him helped him survive and live potentially mania free. The therapy that Andy found that finally worked was called electro-convulsive therapy, which is an extremely risky procedure that prompts the brain into a seizure-like state, causing the loss of memory cells in hopes of ridding a major mental disorder.
ed memories of his experiences during his search for proper treatment and compiled them all into a story of his life. Through Andy's good and bad experiences throughout his fast paced and very dangerous life, Andy explains how his unpredictable behavior and spontaneity actually fueled his mania making things progressively wors
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