I Am Someone You Know

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A strange room. White walls white bed sheets and a white wrist bracelet. The last thing he recalls is a knife. Then... darkness.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In his early twenties bipolar disorder spread through David Shamszad's mind like wildfire. The pendulum swung back and forth between mania and depression which he kept secret and untreated. After watching how alcohol tormented his father David tried to avoid it. But in distress he turned to that familiar lifeline to ease the pain.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>As the years roared by alcoholism and bipolar disorder tore David's bright and promising life to pieces. Nothing could stop his spiral-not weeks in a psychiatric hospital nights in jail or waking up covered in blood. Not even losing the person he loved the most. He was ready to surrender and drown in the sea of alcohol and solitude but she refused to let him sink. With help from the people who cared for him and his own relentless determination David set out to conquer the despair that almost broke him.</span><span style=color: rgba(56 118 29 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A new man emerged from the wreckage of his former life. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Today David is a husband father and successful entrepreneur. His harrowing memoir descends deep into the abscesses of spiritual emptiness-sometimes moment by moment in gripping visceral streams of consciousness. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I Am Someone You Know</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> shows us that even in the face of our greatest challenges we can always find hope courage and love. </span></p>