New Memoir Explores Bipolar Disorder, the Artistic Life, and Caring for Aging Parents with Dementia

Artist and writer Lynne Taetzsch has just published a memoir with Booklocker.com: The Bipolar Dementia Art Chronicles -- How a Manic-Depressive Artist Survives Being the Primary Caregiver for Her Father and Ex-Mother-in-Law

Ithaca, NY (PRWEB) February 11, 2006 -- Artist and writer Lynne Taetzsch has just published a memoir with Booklocker.com: The Bipolar Dementia Art Chronicles -- How a Manic-Depressive Artist Survives Being the Primary Caregiver for Her Father and Ex-Mother-in-Law.

Praised by Dr. Gerard P. Lippert, Psychiatrist, Tompkins County Mental Health Center:

“Lynne Taetzsch lovingly describes how her relationships with her elderly father and ex-mother-in-law gradually shift from adult child to caregiver as their health slowly declines. Her description of their personalities and behavior is never sentimental, and she portrays both their positive attributes and their quirks and foibles with a discerning eye. Along the way, she shows us how a typical family, sometimes dysfunctional, casts its members into particular roles. Interwoven with this theme, Ms. Taetzsch relates how her personal struggles affect her development as an artist, both for good and for bad. Lastly is Ms. Taetzsch's description of the effects of her bipolar disorder and its treatments on her life with her family and her ability to produce art. This book would be well worth reading simply as a journal of a woman's role as a caregiver in a somewhat eccentric extended family. However, what makes it remarkable is the interweaving of the other themes of artistic development and living with a serious mental disorder.”

The book is available now through Booklocker.com, Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, or Lynne’s website at Artbylt.com. It can also be ordered through any local bookstore.

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