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Filename: E4-FEATUR-AJCD0818-AJCD DateTime created: Aug 17 2013 Username: SPEEDDRIVER02 Magenta Black 4E AJCD Sunday, Aug 18, 2013 FEATURES 4E E4 CREDIBLE. COMPELLING. COMPLETE. THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION SUNDAY, AUG. 18, 2013 BOOKS Best-sellers Memoir details bipolar struggle COMBINED PRINT, E-BOOK FICTION 1.

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Eat To Live Joel Fuhrman MR ff 9201-38 NONFICTION "Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life" by Melody Moezzi Avery Books, 304 pages, $26 Moezzi reads and signs her book at 7:30 p.m., Aug. 20. $5 donation. Charis Books More, 1189 Euclid Atlanta, 404-524-0304, www.charisb ooksandmore.com. Also at the AJC Decatur Book Festival, 4:15 p.m., Aug.

31. Free, Eddie'sAttic, 515-B North McDonough St. 404-377-4976, www.decaturb ookfestival.com took its toll as well. At its worst, Moezzi compares its emotional effects to "white phosphorous," the chemical used on Iranians by Saddam Hussein during the Iraq-Iran war, which caused "blisters, burns, smoke inhalation, death." But the biggest battle and obstacle to getting treated -says Moezzi, was her failure to accept bipolar disorder as an illness at all. If her family and husband hadn't observed her carefully and kept notes, which Moezzi calls her "souvenirs from hell," she would not have distinguished her "delusions of grandeur" from reality.

"The thing about being crazy is that you don't feel crazy. You need no explanation for anything you're thinking, feeling or doing. It all seems perfectly sane, ingenious even. I really believed that I had singlehand-edly discovered the secret to life, that I had all the most important answers And more Attorney, writer and mental health activist tells her own story. ByGinaWebb FortheAJC One of Melody Moezzi's biggest gripes about being bipolar is that nobody rewards it.

"If you have cancer, you get flowers, visitors and compassion. If you have a mental illness, you get plastic utensils, isolation and fear. If you survive cancer, people consider you a hero and inspiration, and they tell you so." What's more, the mentally ill have no champions: "We have no especially loud and high-profile advocates. No Michael J. Fox, no Christopher Reeves, no Lance Armstrongs.

No pink boas or bracelets or ribbons or T-shirts." They do now. Consider Moezzi's new book, "Haldol and Hyacinths," the crazy, colorful rubber wristband for bipolar sufferers everywhere. Blistering, brash and irreverent, Moezzi lays out the years she spent suffering from a combination of mania and depression that she describes as "so delusional and ecstatic that it tricks you into believing you can leap tall buildings in a single bound, or so depressed and hopeless that it has you begging gravity to work its morbid magic." Moezzi, an Iranian-American writer, attorney, and activist now living in Raleigh, N.C., is a spokeswoman for a variety of issues, particularly those relating to mental health and human rights. Parts of her memoir have appeared in various articles for Bipolar Magazine, the website of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, CNN and other media outlets. Although much of the memoir takes place in crisis centers and mental hospitals, this is "A Bipolar Life," not just Iranian-American Girl, Interrupted.

Moezzi describes her childhood, adolescence, college years including Emory law school and marriage, and the many frustrating attempts made over the years to nail down the exact nature of her mental illness: Bipolar the most severe form of the disease. In search of its origins, Moezzi sifts through various possibilities, beginning with the end to her parents' comfortable life in Ohio when revolution in Iran resulted in their expulsion from the U.S. Though she was born in Chicago in 1979, the nomadic life she was exposed to before returning to America in the early '80s guaranteed Moezzi "a dual existence from the start." The euphoria she felt during a summer in Glacier Park, now appears to have been a case of hypomania, a mild version of what would develop, within 10 years, into fullblown mania, a classic indicator of her disorder. Depression MATHEW BRADY NONFICTION "Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation" by Robert Wilson Bloomsbury, 273 pages, $28 ROBERT WILSON A chronicle of life in smalltown Alaska. In the untamed American West, a solitary orchard-ist provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls.

Recipes inspired by the diverse city's varied, flavorful cuisine. He lost his Bull Run images in the tumult and rarely went near a battlefield again. He sent teams of photographers to the war's fronts instead. He ran something like an early version of the Magnum agency- There's been abiding controversy about who actually took many of the photographs attributed to Brady. Wilson wades through these issues patiently, almost photo by photo.

He mostly comes to his subject's defense. Brady's biggest photographic accomplishment might have been the familiar image he took of the defeated Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond shortly after the South had surrendered at Appomattox. rprAM Saph than anything, I really believed that nothing I was doing was remotely irrational." Moezzi frequently suggests that craziness is tantamount to brilliance, with sanity running a dull second, and that her disorder has positive applications: "If it means you have to be a little crazy and delusional to reach your dreams, so be it.

After all, delusions aren't really delusions if you realize them." Indeed, there are times in the book when it's hard to say where the Iranian-American Princess act ends and the bipolar Melody starts. Temper tantrums, scathing humor and intolerance for psych ward rules are the cornerstones of her various hospital stays. But these same qualities have also been the building blocks of her new-found sanity, which Moezzi, with typical sarcasm, calls "stabilized volatility." They're proof that no one has to give up their personality and passion for justice, much less a sense of the absurd, to rejoin the ranks of the sane. Moezzi has said that although she's hardly "the quiet type," this was not a story she was eager to share. "I didn't particularly want to put all my crazy out there for the world to see and judge.

I didn't particularly want to relive all that trauma and madness." But as an activist and advocate for the mentally ill, she knew her book might save lives. For the many who struggle to make sense of and survive this misunderstood disorder, her battered, courageous postcard from the edge can't come too soon. wind, or the hint of a smile, to ruin everything. His subjects often had their heads stabilized by an unseen vise. Brady (1823-96) was America's first great portrait photographer.

Those long exposure times were a gift of sorts to a country that was still young. What Brady's images lacked in spontaneity they more than made up for in gravitas. He defined a nation's dignified visual sensibility. "Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation" is a new biography from Robert Wilson, the editor of The American Scholar. It's a compact, straightforward, unblinking volume that has some of the attributes of its subject.The book is sober history, a flinty chunk of Ameri NewYorkTimes Opening Lines "The Girl You Left Behind" by JoJo Moyes Viking, 369 pages, $27.95 cana.

Almost no one smiled in Brady's photographs. Smiles are elusive, too hard then to bottle. One of the things Wilson makes plain about Brady, however, is that he himself had a terrific smile. In his presence, one observer said, you felt "the light of an Irish shower sun." Anyone who has seen Ken Burns' documentary "The Civil War" knows how beautifully he learned to pan across Brady's photographs from that war, among the first in history to leave a detailed photographic record. He accompanied the Union Army to its first major battle, at Bull Run, and the experience scared him to death.

Unblinking look at Civil War photographer Mathew Brady defined nation's visual perception of itself. By Dwight Garner NewYorkTimes Salman Rushdie, in his novel "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (1999), described what we see in a photograph as "a moral decision taken in one-eighth of a second." In the early days of photography, those moral decisions took longer to process. When Mathew Brady, the Civil War-era photographer, took a portrait, the shutter remained open for 10 to 15 seconds or more, long enough for a bit of Magenta Black 4E AJCD File name: E4-FEATUR-AJCD0818-AJCD DateTime created: Aug 17 2013 User-.