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Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. The only certainty is that it kept getting worse. Simply put: Cory Friedman's life was a living hell.

AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE is the true story of Cory and his family's decades-long battle for survival in the face of extraordinary difficulties and a maddening medical establishment. It is a heart-rending story of struggle and triumph with a climax as dramatic as any James Patterson thriller. (2008).
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For thirty-nine years, Robert L. Hamlett's life was controlled by severe depression "Surviving Depression: My Agonizing Struggle with Sanity" is his inspiring and yes, terrifying, account of his battle with disease--including panic attacks, crying, withdrawal from society, hopelessness, and despair.

"My life has been a dichotomy," writes the author. "For those who know me only superficially, my life has been far different than what appears at first glance.

Mr. Hamlett spent weeks and months at a time in hospitals, suffering from what doctors called "severe depression." When, at age thirty-nine, he finally found a psychiatrist who could treat him, it changed his life substantially. Through medication and the love and support of his friends and family, the author turned his life around and has been living "depression free" for the past twenty-five years.

Robert Hamlett's riveting memoir explains how he "muddled through" high school, college, and military service in Vietnam until he was institutionalized at the age of twenty-six. His journey back to a "normal" life, told in straightforward language with genuinely cathartic tones, can be helpful to anyone dealing with depression, from individuals, to friends and family members, as well as to health care professionals..
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Veteran baseball writer John Kuenster recalls fifteen of the game's most painful disasters of the last half-century and looks at them from the losers' point of view. With a reporter's skill and a fan's enthusiasm, he sets the scene for these memorable matchups, surveys the players who led each team to the big moment, and tells the story of the game and the emotions that can't be erased. Kuenster has hit a Grand Slam. --Sparky Anderson. John Kuenster lets those who suffered baseball's most epic defeats know that he feels their pain. --Bob Costas, NBC sports. Illustrated..
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A Few Marbles Left contains more than 75 essays, rants, news bloopers and observations about television news, as well as serious considerations on improving the craft, who's the top journalist in America, the inside story behind the best news cassette ever shot, and the real issue of the public good versus news excess. Corcoran is by turns outrageous, poignant, hilarious and maddening, but always truthful and never dull. "This book could only be written by someone out of the business for good," he says. "Anyone as honest as I am would be fired immediately by one of the boneheads running it. That being said, I'm always open to offers of work that don't involve selling my conscience or heavy lifting." John Corcoran spent twenty years in television as an on-air entertainment reporter and critic in Washington, D.C., Boston, and Los Angeles. Then he got out of the business and and the real fun began. A Few Marbles Left started as a series of missives to the legendary TV newletter ShopTalk, where his "Pesky Gadabout" letters drew praise, condemnation and, most frequently, laughter. Writing from Los Angeles, "a city where anyone with a set of car keys and a 'Darwin Was Wrong' tattoo can hijack a television newscast for hours at a time," Corcoran has traveled the country observing local news markets from San Louis Obispo, CA, to Portland, ME. Corcoran skewers TV news with outrageous comments like, "I think it's time that the public accepted the reality that TV news is no longer fact-driven. Facts impede flow, cause delays in getting to live shots, confuse the viewer, lead to unwanted litigation and are frequently hard to prove." A Few Marbles Left is a mandatory read for anyone who is in the business, who has been in the business or who watches television news. They will recognize the characters and the calamities, and the occasions when TV rises above them and does the extraordinary work it is capable of doing, but so rarely does. More importantly, anyone contemplating a career in television will be well served by Corcoran's cautionary tales and lessons learned. "If I can keep just one person from making a lifetime mistake and working in TV news for the wrong reasons, well, I'm pretty sure my publisher will be upset. No I'm hoping to influence thousands of bright young people, get them to change majors and become attorneys, doctors, con men or dropouts - plus make a few bucks for the publisher and myself at the same time.".
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Citation Details
Title: Agonizing over the business he chose.(NFL)(National Football League, Dave Wannstedt)
Author: Brian Baldinger
Publication:The Sporting News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2004
Publisher: Sporting News Publishing Co.
Volume: 228 Issue: 44 Page: 39(1)

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