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Asylum A Memoir About Hollywood, Mental Illness, Recovery, and Being My Mother's Son

Name: Asylum
Author: Joe Pantoliano

Auteur: Joe Pantoliano

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Joe Pantoliano Joe Pantoliano

Engels
Hardcover
9781602861350
24 april 2012
256 pagina's

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In this deeply moving and resourceful memoir, the beloved actor and New York Times bestselling author takes aim at the stigma attached to mental illness by writing candidly and humorously about his own struggle with clinical depression. Most people know Joe Pantoliano from his memorable roles in The Sopranos , The Matrix , The Goonies , Risky Business , Memento , The Fugitive , and Midnight Run . But before he became one of Hollywood's most successful character actors, he was 'Joey Pants' from Hoboken, the son of a fiercely controlling schizophrenic mother. Growing up Joey always knew something was different with him, too, he just didn't know what. 'It was as if I was born with a huge hole inside of me,' he writes. Not until much later in life was Joey diagnosed with clinical depression. Now he has a message for the millions of people who suffer from mental illness, and for the friends and family who care for them: You are not alone. Joey's path to recovery was filled with trials and tribulations. Before he was diagnosed he tried to fill the hole inside of him with alcohol. Then he stopped drinking because the alcohol had stopped working, instead taking up to twenty Vicodin a day in an effort to self-medicate and numb the emotional and physical pain. Even after being diagnosed Joey faced roadblocks, such as when he couldn't get insured on a film because of his anti-depressant medication. Asylum is the story of Joey's Hollywood success, his undiagnosed mental illness and substance abuse, and how that all led to his eventual awareness, diagnosis and recovery, activism and advocacy. Paying particular attention to a realistic account of his difficult rehabilitation, recovery and finally his decision to take his struggle public, Pantoliano's memoir will resonate not only with victims of mental illness, but also with witnesses to its devastating effects and readers looking to learn more about brain disease. Interweaving deeply personal experience with informative discourse, Pantoliano creates a highly relative and unflinchingly honest memoir about the struggles of being a public figure with a private disease.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 24 april 2012
Aantal pagina's: 256
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Joe Pantoliano
Tweede Auteur: Joe Pantoliano
Hoofduitgeverij: Weinstein Books

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 180 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 28 mm
Verpakking lengte: 230 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 476 g

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