Beyond Crazy: Journeys Through Mental Illness

Provides many stories of people...some famous, many succesful...who have come through mental illness and gotten on with their lives. Some are role models in that they share their paths from success to rock bottom and back again. The book also has a chapter on "what it feels like," enlightening those of us who may have experienced one form of mental illness but don't understand what people with other mental illnesses experience. All-in-all, an interesting, informative, easy-to-read, enjoyable book.

I thought this book was both entertaining and informative. Some of the stories were brutally honest, and some were also very uplifting. I learned quite a lot about mental illness by reading this book -- and I'd have to say it's changed the way I view this topic. Some of the stories were very, VERY moving.