Burn

About the Book

The author, Shane Feldman, is a college-aged person suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar. In this memoir he allows the reader to observe actual thoughts and behaviors exhibited as a manic episode occurred in a real-time journal. He allows the reader to follow him on an intimate descent and recovery from a manic episode along with providing a prologue detailing his relatively normal life and high level of functionality in the absence of devastating psychological symptoms. After the episode, Shane added a series of insightful postdated footnotes strategically located to aid the reader in fully understanding the complexity of his mind frame.

The memoir is far from being simply a documentation of a disease as Shane demonstrates his poetic and perceptive brilliance in a series of satires about the relationships between religion, society, and government. Though Mr. Feldman has suffered serious psychological illness for a small percent of his life... he is one-hundred percent a writer and has written and published a wide variety of works.

About the Author

"Shane Feldman was born in Boston on February 3, 1980 and presently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His life has been a constant test to overcome adversity. At an early age psychologists evaluated him. The evaluations indicated that he was an extremely intelligent, perceptive and sensitive child with severe learning difficulties, anxiety and early signs of depression.

Eventually Shane left public school to be in an environment that encouraged expressing his creative intelligence. He transferred in the seventh grade. He attended private school grades seven through eleven. In the fall of the eleventh grade, he had to be hospitalized at McLean, a psychiatric institution.

After being hospitalized Shane continued his education and received his high school diploma from Beacon High School, a special needs school. Upon completion of his high school education, he was accepted at a prestigious university where he has completed several of his short stories. During the course of his writing career he has had the opportunity to work along side such writers as William G Tapply, Leigh Steinberg, and Jonathan Cole. Three of Shane's poems have been published in internationally distributed books.

In August of 2001 following a substance induced manic episode Shane was diagnosed as bipolar. The following year he shared the details of a traumatic childhood. Another manic episode resulted in a more specific diagnosis of bipolar A Typical type, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).

In 2002 Shane also received an award from a special needs school where he worked with young children with severe psychological and behavioral disorders."

Sincerely,
Helen Feldman (Shane's mom)