Finding Sanity Audiobook by Greg de Moore, Ann Westmore

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/33/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Finding Sanity Subtitle: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder Author: Greg de Moore, Ann Westmore Narrator: Paul English Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 01-23-17 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders Publisher's Summary: For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them. In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone in a disused kitchen, set about an experimental treatment for one of the scourges of mankind - manic depression, or bipolar disorder. That doctor was John Cade and in that small kitchen he stirred up a miracle. John Cade discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar disorder - lithium. It has stopped more people from committing suicide than 1000 help lines. Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health - the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness - and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story.