I recently received an email message from the translator who’s doing the Slovene translation of Bipolar Disorder For Dummies. Following is the letter (included here with permission).
Hello,
I’m currently finishing the Slovene (ours is a tiny country in Middle Europe) translation of Bipolar Disorder For Dummies, so I’ve been checking your name on the Internet and I’ve come across your site. 🙂
I have bipolar myself (Bipolar I). I was hospitalized for the first time at 16 – that was a quarter of a century ago; and I’ve also managed to transmit my bipolar genes to my son (the second of our three children), and they burst out really, really wildly two years ago, when he was eleven. But we survived as a family and we’re actually better off now than we were before. I have a loving husband and I suppose – considering you have bipolar in your family – you can pretty well imagine what he’s been through beside us.
Why am I writing this? To tell you that I love your and Candida’s book. I was having doubts when I first got it, but it is actually just what someone with bipolar needs. I’ve replaced all your legal information with our legislation so that the book is going to be just as useful as it was, I suppose, originally meant to be. Beside this book, I am doing everything I can to help my co-sufferers and especially to help kids with bipolar and their parents; one part of my efforts is my web site bipolarna.si.
Well, that’s about it: congratulations for the book once again and … have a nice day today!
Darja
If you can read and understand Slovene, I encourage you to visit Darja’s Web site – bipolarna.si
I don’t know if you are aware of this but your book is the number one recommended book by the Bipolar Support Board at WebMD. We used to recommend The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide but when your book was came out a couple of years ago, it became the official book we always recommend to newbies and family members. We probably give your book 3-4 recommendations a day. You ought to drop in to WebMD and see how your book has helped thousands. Joye
It’s the number one book because Joye is the self-proclaimed leader of the group so she thinks that what she recommends goes.
I actually buy and send copies of this book free to anyone who cannot afford to purchase one as it is not the only good book on bipolar but the best I’ve found for newly diagnosed and family member who wish to learn more about the illness.
Este espacio que hemos tenido a bien llamar VITRIOLVM esta dirigido a todos quienes padecen Trastorno Bipolar, pero muy, muy especialmente también esta orientado a personas cercanas, amigos o familiares de aquellos que posiblemente lo padezcan sin saberlo y aquí el apoyo del entorno familiar para identificar los síntomas y buscar ayuda y tratamiento a tiempo para su ser mas querido es vital y fundamental.
My brother and son suffer with bipolar and I will recommend this book to them and hope they read it for it is so very good.