![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With several accolades already, I hope this book will further help demystify mental illness and irradicate the stigma surrounding it. ![]() It’s a comprehensive, remarkable look at mental illness and the lengths we go to encourage sanity. Summary: The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him. Zack establishes very early on that he’s bi-polar and after a psychotic break that lands him in a mental institution he realizes he needs to come to terms with this diagnosis and rise above the disease if it’s not to define him. Zack was always smart, really smart but mental health isn’t choosy when it comes to its victims and intelligence doesn’t help guard against the darkening at the door. But his mother, kindly known as “The Bird” had other plans for her beloved son. McDermott worked for the Legal Aid Society of New York as a public defender and is now the co-founder of the GorillaBird Foundation with his mother. His upbringing in Wichita Kansas was less than ideal, so much so that if he’d ended up as a meth addict it would have been none too surprising. Zack McDermott’s Gorilla and the Bird takes readers on a whirlwind of emotions while discovering the ins and outs of McDermott’s bipolar disorder based on his true life events. Zack McDermott is a 27-year-old public defender living in Brooklyn. And beyond that, it’s very much my kind of book. I have a tremendous amount of love for this book. ![]()
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