Heart Berries

Description:

A powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma.

subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder,  Patients,  Health,  Manic-depressive persons,  Biography,  Indian women,  Canada, biography,  Indian women, canada,  Manic-depressive illness,  Women, biography,  Indians of north america, biography

People: Terese Marie Mailhot

Places: Pacific Northwest