MAMA DRAMA: A Journey with Bipolar and Dementia, Finding Light Through Loss and Grief - Softcover

Smith, Sheri

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798992316650

Verlag: 979-8-9923166-5-0, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

What happens when the woman you desperately want to forgive becomes the woman you can no longer reach?
In Mama Drama: A Journey with Bipolar and Dementia, Finding Light Through Loss and Grief, Sheri Smith tells the deeply personal story of navigating two devastating realities at once: a mother disappearing into dementia and life alongside a partner struggling with undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
Years of mother-daughter pain and estrangement collide with caregiving, grief, family conflict, and the realization that reconciliation may no longer be possible. At the same time, the instability of untreated mental illness forces Sheri to confront the complicated boundaries between love, loyalty, and survival.
Through it all is Ray, her once-in-a-lifetime German Shepherd and heart dog, whose loyalty becomes an anchor when the people and circumstances around her feel impossible to trust.
Honest, darkly funny, and ultimately hopeful, Mama Drama explores bipolar disorder, dementia, caregiving, family estrangement, grief, forgiveness, mental illness, and what it takes to rebuild a life after sixty.
Inside this memoir:

• Living alongside undiagnosed bipolar disorder
• The emotional toll of dementia and caregiving
• Mother-daughter estrangement and unresolved grief
• Family betrayal and difficult boundaries
• The extraordinary bond between a woman and her heart dog
• Starting over at sixty
• Meditation, spirituality, and the tools Sheri used to rebuild

If you have ever loved someone you could not save, grieved a relationship that never became what you hoped, or wondered whether it was too late to begin again, Mama Drama is a reminder that even after profound loss, a meaningful life can still be rebuilt.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: 979-8-9923166-5-0
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798992316650
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282
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