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Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So

Mark Vonnegut first experienced a series of psychotic breaks while living on a Canadian commune in the early 1970s. Declaring himself cured, he told the world that story in 1975's The Eden Express, which the New York Times called "required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside." Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So spans the next thirty-five years of the author's life--Vonnegut family humor firmly in place--over battles with alcoholism, his calling to practice medicine, a subsequent, heartbreaking psychotic break, the intricacies of marriage and fatherhood, the uncomfortable onset of middle age, and the emotionally complicated passing of his father, the American literary icon Kurt Vonnegut.

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