“High tide – Low tide” a journal of Manic Depression

Nadiye Coskuner was only fifteen years old when she began her first tortuous journey into the dark and depths and euphoric excesses of manic depression. This struggle was to last for seven long years. In documenting her experiences she hopes to share her accumulated knowledge with the fellow sufferers. By charting these turbulent shores of the human mind that are shaped by the subtle imbalances of the biochemistry of the body and brain, she has prepared a valuable guide to others lost on their own dark shores.” This is a poignant story of a young girl brought up in Bali who progressively develops manic depression or bi-polar disorder. It vividly describes what it was like to spin out of control and lose friends and the chance of a collage education, without really understanding what is going on…Above all, it describes the horror of being in thrall to a medical regimen that has no answer but to prescribe a lifetime of powerful medication with all its terrible side effects,” said Adrian Batten, Paracelcus Asia.