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Summary: Inspiring True Story
Review: "Win the Battle" is an inspiring, true life story. It's rewarding to read about someone who has been to the heights of mania and the depths of depression and found a better way to live.Bob and Melissa Olson remind us that life can always be upward and onward, if one is willing to have faith, take action and be persistent. I felt the book gave an excellent, practical, self responsible approach to managing one's own situation. Olson tells readers to practice learning about their condition while actively working in conjunction with doctors and medication to come up with the right treatment for them. This seems to be very front-edge thinking for anyone with a challenging health condition. Olson doesn't pretend to be a health care professional, but does prove to his reader he is an experienced, tested human with something worthwhile to say. I've already begun suggesting his book to health care audiences who are looking for new and better ways to help those dealing with Manic Depression. Thanks, Bob Olson, for deciding not to lay down and die!
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Summary: Inspiring True Story
Review: "Win the Battle" is an inspiring, true life story. It's rewarding to read about someone who has been to the heights of mania and the depths of depression and found a better way to live. Bob and Melissa Olson remind us that life can always be upward and onward, if one is willing to have faith, take action and be persistent. I felt the book gave an excellent, practical, self responsible approach to managing one's own situation. Olson tells readers to practice learning about their condition while actively working in conjunction with doctors and medication to come up with the right treatment for them. This seems to be very front-edge thinking for anyone with a challenging health condition. Olson doesn't pretend to be a health care professional, but does prove to his reader he is an experienced, tested human with something worthwhile to say. I've already begun suggesting his book to health care audiences who are looking for new and better ways to help those dealing with Manic Depression. Thanks, Bob Olson, for deciding not to lay down and die!
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Summary: Win the Battle: by Bob Olson
Review: After witnessing somebody very dear to us attempting suicide, I decided to visit our local library for all the books about manic Depression that I could get my hands on. I got about eleven of them. I decided to order 2 of them. "Essential guide to Depression" and "Win the battle" by BoB Olson.
I hope I did the right choice. I will take both books along with me as I will go back 6 January, 2002, to take turn to be with her for a period of time. I felt I got to be educated about this desease before I would be of any help.As we left she was already committed in the hospital in Los Angeles. She is willing to be helped.
One thing though, I wish Bob Wilson would have been a woman, because I read, there can also be Hormonal Disorders. But then I thought the 3 steps are all the same in either case.
Wish me and her the best. I believe your book will help her and me. Thanks.
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Summary: Give this book a chance to change your life around.
Review: An excellent read. When everything seems overwhelming this book allows you to start to get a handle on life. Real life stories you can relate to make this book a useful tool in battling depression. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and continue to pick it up often for useful pointers. Enjoy this good book and start winning your battle. Thank-you to Bob and Melissa for sharing something that touches so many lives.
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Summary: This Book Gave Me Hope & Taught Me How To Fight My Battle
Review: Besides teaching me the truth about my disorder and what my diagnosis really means, teaching me what I needed to do to overcome it, and teaching my parents and sister how to help me; reading Win The Battle was an incredible coping tool for me to lift my spirits and gain hope on my most trying days. I have now found a medication that works for me, but when I needed it most this book was there to remind me of what I needed to be doing to get better, and it totally made me realize what I was doing wrong when dealing with my doctor. I highly recommend this book to anyone searching for an answer and a light at the end of their dark tunnel of depression. I especially recommend it for people dealing with suicidal thoughts or supporters who don't understand why people with depression sometimes want to die. Don't miss out on this informative and heartwarming book.
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Summary: Olson's have written a winner on a too-often-lost subject
Review: Bob and Melissa Olson team up to share their victory over a long-fought battle with depression. After years of searching for a treatment that worked, Bob Olson has successfully combated one of the most common but least talked about subjects -- manic depression, or bipolar disorder. In this inspirational book, the Olsons give readers a message of hope to the millions of sufferers and their more than 100 million spouses and family members coping with this illness every day. Not only is this book a real-life story of winning over a debilitating disorder, it is a story of faith between the two. Bob and Melissa have managed to maintain a solid marriage despite the serious lows that result from such a disease. Between the two, they demonstrate the power of love as well as will and determination in finding a treatment that has lead to a healthy, and happy - as happy as we can hope to be - life. Intended for sufferers and their supporters, the book is written in an easy-to-read format (Bob notes that anyone depressed does not want to tackle an intimidating 300+ pager.) He's kept the text straight forward, and the story is told in segments that are easily digested in short sittings. The positive and inspiring story gives readers hope to pursue their own winning combination of medications and therapy to achieve their highest potential of happiness and inner peace.
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Summary: A book of love and hope written by an inspirational couple.
Review: Bob and Melissa's book was my salvation after the most horrible call a mom can receive, "Your daughter has attempted to take her life". To be able to support a loved one, you must first understand their journey; to have the strength to heal you must have a message of hope. The Olson's have most certainly experinced the full scope of the illness and I am truly grateful for them for this book. I have given this book as a gift and guide to family members so they are better able to support us and to others who suffer themselves from depression. When I speak of my daughter's journey I am astounded at how many people open up and share their own experiences. We are all related to or know someone who suffers with depression. My daughter now has her life back (her own words) and I know this book was truly instrumental in her recovery. Thank you and God bless you both for showing us the way.
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Summary: You can't overcome bipolar disorder in 3 lifesaving steps!
Review: Frankly, I am surprised by the number of favorable reviews already submitted here! The content is so generic/inspirational, Olson could easily have done a global "search and replace" and written about a "3-Step Lifesaving Formula to Conquer Game Show Anxiety" or any other perceived challenge. I found this book incredibly simplistic and repetitive, very disappointing, and in general, poorly written. For anyone who has done any reading at all about bipolar disorder, there is nothing remotely new here.
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Summary: Win the Battle: by Bob Olson
Review: Having read earlier reviews of this book, feel compelled to write and defend the author in the light of criticisms of 'poorly written...' etc. Any contribution made in sincerity about treatment approaches to this illness with its known appalling consequences (potentially) are valid and, in my view, worth hearing. I find the tone of the some of the earlier reviews most objectionable - as a graduate of literature and as a very reluctant acceptant of the diagnosis of bipolar disorder and eventual compliance with ongoing (indefinitely?) medication.
Effects of manic phases can be disastrous as outlined by Kay Jamieson in her texts and responsiblilities to children and the potential distress to them lead to acceptance of medical viewpoint re benefits of lithium. Some reviewers seem trite and slightly patronising in tone...... am I alone in feeling this?
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Summary: Beg to disagree........
Review: Having read earlier reviews of this book, feel compelled to write and defend the author in the light of criticisms of 'poorly written...' etc. Any contribution made in sincerity about treatment approaches to this illness with its known appalling consequences (potentially) are valid and, in my view, worth hearing. I find the tone of the some of the earlier reviews most objectionable - as a graduate of literature and as a very reluctant acceptant of the diagnosis of bipolar disorder and eventual compliance with ongoing (indefinitely?) medication.
Effects of manic phases can be disastrous as outlined by Kay Jamieson in her texts and responsiblilities to children and the potential distress to them lead to acceptance of medical viewpoint re benefits of lithium. Some reviewers seem trite and slightly patronising in tone...... am I alone in feeling this?
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