Lost Marbles: Insights into My Life with Depression & Bipolar

This is not just another book about bipolar and depression. This is a no-punches-pulled, game-changing book that aims to do the virtually impossible — put the reader inside the head of a bipolar brain. In this book is Natasha Tracy’s traditional, politically incorrect writing style combined with new ideas and new ways of looking at mental illness.

What’s in ‘Lost Marbles?’

In Lost Marbles: Insights into My Life with Depression & Bipolar you’ll find 11 chapters with sections on topics like:

  • What is normal, anyway?
  • Can a person die from bipolar disorder?
  • Why we don’t want to shower when we’re sick
  • Bipolar disorder and delusions and grandeur
  • Hypersexuality
  • Creativity and mental illness
  • When to get off and when to stay on antidepressants
  • What it’s like to stay in a psychiatric hospital
  • Coping with extreme emotions using logic
  • Learning from my suicide attempt story
  • Is life ever normal for a person with a serious mental illness?
  • The brain-mind split and enlightenment in mental illness
  • Reasons to continue fighting the pain of mental illness

There are also full appendixes on medication treatment for depression and bipolar disorder as well as how to taper medication and information on useful psychotherapies. Use the Look Inside feature on Amazon for a full Table of Contents rundown.

More on ‘Lost Marbles’

This is a new book with a new perspective on depression and bipolar disorder. It straddles the divide between a self-help book and a memoir. This means it aims to help people live better through sharing my story and also through real-world steps people can take to improve their daily lives. These steps are action-oriented — in other words, you will come away from many sections with actions you can actually take to make your life better. Other sections aim to elucidate bipolar and depression issues that, typically, no one talks about.

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Natasha’s New Mental Health Book

Natasha Tracy has undertaken writing her second book on mental health and mental illness. The details are still under wraps, but stay tuned as they are revealed in late 2023. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to be the first to hear about them.