Up from the Ashes: One Doc's Struggle with Drugs and Mental Illness

Up from the Ashes: One Docs Struggle with Drugs and Mental Illness is a tangible saga of one doctors struggle with such an illness. It is a story that is readily understandable. What makes this book special is that Dr. Dorsen is a physician whose illness was so severe he lost his license to practice. But in Up from the Ashes he reveals his ultimate process of understanding and exposition -- making it both alarming and freeing. Generally in this society physicians are not readily given to such self-revelation. Dr. Dorsen by doing so offers his readers the chance to make such a journey via his persona. In the process manic depression its earlier appellation becomes less anathema and more representational and freeing that any of us even a professional can suffer by mixing drugs and mental illness. In Dr. Dorsens case as a physician it is from such a privileged position in our society that he so openly reveals what can happen to any man or woman innately suffering from such a condition.