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Devout : a memoir of doubt / Anna Gazmarian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gazmarian, Anna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gazmarian, Anna--Mental health.
- Gazmarian, Anna.
- Gazmarian, Anna--Religion.
- Mental health--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Mental health.
- People with bipolar disorder--United States--Biography.
- People with bipolar disorder.
- Evangelicalism--United States.
- Evangelicalism.
- Bipolar disorder--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Bipolar disorder.
- North Carolina--Biography.
- North Carolina.
- Autobiographies as Topic.
- autobiography (genre).
- Medical Subjects:
- North Carolina.
- Autobiographies as Topic.
- Genre:
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Creative nonfiction.
- Autobiographies.
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- 178 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
- Summary:
- In this revelatory memoir, Anna Gazmarian tells the story of how her evangelical upbringing in North Carolina failed to help her understand the mental health diagnosis she received, and the work she had to do to find proper medical treatment while also maintaining her faith. When Anna is diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2011, she's faced with a conundrum: while the diagnosis provides clarity about her manic and depressive episodes, she must confront the stigma that her evangelical community attaches to her condition. Over the course of ten years, we follow Anna on her journey to reframe her understanding of mental health to expand the limits of what her religious practice can offer. In Devout: A Memoir of Doubt, Anna shows that the pursuing our emotional health and our spiritual well-being is one single mission and, in both cases, an act of faith. -- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Note: This memoir is a work of creative nonfiction." -- page [ix].
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781668004036
- 1668004038
- OCLC:
- 1384412571
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