02506cam a2200265 4500 338542074 TxAuBib 20170201120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781632866844 1632866846 B077N71JVT Amazon bbfd0a3c-f2e7-4d74-a033-28f0bb7db1b2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3757006 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pilon, Mary. The Kevin Show [Bridges eBook] : An Olympic Athlete's Battle with Mental Illness. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 9MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 9MB. HTML:<p><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Monopolists</i>, the incredible story of Olympic sailor Kevin Hall, and the psychiatric syndrome that makes him believe he stars in a television show of his life.</b><br /> <br /> Meet Kevin Hall, brother, son, husband, father, and Olympic and America's Cup sailor. Kevin has an Ivy League degree, a winning smile, and throughout his adult life, he has been engaged in an ongoing battle with a person that doesn't exist to anyone but him: the Director.<br /> <br /> Kevin suffers from what doctors are beginning to call the "Truman Show" delusion, a form of psychosis named for the 1998 movie, where the main character is trapped as the star of a reality TV show. When the Director commands Kevin to do things, the results can lead to handcuffs, hospitalization, or both. Once he nearly drove a car into Boston Harbor. His girlfriend, now wife, was in the passenger seat.<br /> <br /> In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison's <i>An Unquiet Mind</i>, journalist Mary Pilon's <i>The Kevin Show</i> reveals the many-sided struggle by Kevin, his family, and the medical profession to understand and treat a psychiatric disorder whose euphoric highs and creative ties to pop culture have become inextricable from Kevin's experience of himself. Interweaving his perspective, journals, and sketches with police reports, medical records, and interviews with those who were present at key moments in his life, <i>The Kevin Show</i> is a bracing, suspenseful, and eye-opening view of the role that mental health plays in a seemingly ordinary life.</p>. Psychology. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2018-02-01 13:26:15.