Nothing General About It: How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital Free Audiobook Download by Maurice Benard

This is a really interesting audiobook. It's a memoir by Maurice Benard and it tells the story of his struggles with bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and homelessness before finally getting clean and sober.

"There's a general idea that when you're involved in the medical world, you're destined for disasters," writes the author, who was a doctor on "General Hospital" from 2011 to 2014. "I had waves of joy, sadness, happiness and fear as I made my way from being a physician to becoming an actor."

Nothing General About It: How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital audiobook download is a riveting memoir of Benard's experience in the world of daytime soaps.

It was the fall of 2008 and I had just gotten out of another really tough relationship. I was in a funk, my career was imploding, and no matter how hard I tried to make things work, I couldn't shake the feeling that this relationship was just not for me. Then one day it hit me: oh wait, it's never been for me. That epiphany led to an intense period of self-reflection and introspection during which time I learned a lot about myself and what made me happy.

Maurice Benard's memoir about his life of addiction and recovery offers a glimpse into the soul of a man who has lived so many experiences. From his days as an addict to his struggles with mental illness, Maurice is honest, raw, and real in this book. He is honest about how difficult it can be to move on from the past and how self-care is just as important as getting better.

I was fifty-two years old when I decided to come off of my mood stabilizer and enter a full-blown manic episode. I knew this was a decision that would ultimately kill me, but I had good reason to go through with it. Years of depression and anxiety had taken their toll on the person that I once was, and after the birth of my grandson, I felt like I didn't deserve to live anymore. But one evening at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, someone told me about lithium for bipolar disorder. When the doctor prescribed me two doses of lithium, my life changed forever.