Download or read book A Life In Bits written by Charles McMullen and published by Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿA Life In Bits is the moving story of one man's battle with bipolar disorder, a condition whose devastating consequences are still not fully appreciated by the world at large. Charles McMullen?s battle with manic depression, as it is often known, began with a nervous breakdown at the age of nineteen. In his twenties, the suicide of his brother, his own divorce and the loss of his job and his home put him inside a psychiatric hospital. Yet despite the periods of appalling despair and the continued setbacks, Charles can still write at the end of the book ?Overall, it?s been a pretty happy life?. This inspirational book will be of great interest to anyone who is afflicted by bipolar disorder, or knows one of the many people ? roughly one in 25 of the population - who are.