Flying My Own Plane
by: David Murdoch
Chipmunka Publishers

David Murdoch's life was tragically cut short in 2008 when he committed suicide after a bout of mania: he suffered from chronic bipolar disorder. Throughout his adult life, spent in Scotland, he wrote poems which have been carefully collected into this anthology by close family and friends.

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Bipolar Disorder-The Ultimate Guide
by: Sarah Owen and Amanda Saunders
Oneworld

Has someone close to you been diagnosed with bipolar disorder? Have you been diagnosed yourself? If so, then this is the book for you.

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Depression and How to Survive It
by: Spike Milligan and Anthony Clare
Arrow Books Ltd; New Ed edition (3 Feb 1994)

Spike Milligan reveals the dark side of his life in this book which is co-written with his psychiatrist Anthony Clare. He recalls the traumas of his childhood, his highly-strung mother, his largely absent father, the cruelties of a colonial upbringing and of sadism towards animals, the break-up of his first marriage, the mortar bomb which blew him up in Italy and the overwork which gave him a mental breakdown during the "Goon Show".

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The Noonday Demon
by: Andrew Solomon
Chatto and Windus (3 May 2001)

This extraordinarily moving, shocking and eye-opening work is set to become the classic text for the literary market on the subject of depression, mental illness and the way we live now - the book that knocks even William Styron's Darkness Visible out of the water.

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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by: Kay Redfield Jamison
Picador; New Ed edition (9 May 1997)

This work is a personal testimony from Kay Redfield Jamison: the revelation of her struggle with manic depression since adolescence, and how it has shaped her life. The book follows her through college, a love affair, her battle with the illness, bouts of madness, violence and attempted suicide.

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