Description
This book includes a true story about reaching the very edge,
the very depths and heights of bipolar illness, but almost always
with a sense of humour. Much like a car crash, people cannot help
but look when they spy on these sort of black events. It is a new
perspective on manic depression as in Prof K.R. Jamison's
autobiography about her illness in An Unquiet Mind, but mixed
explosively with S. Kaysen's immersion into madness in Girl,
Interrupted; except this book feels like it's been written whilst
on crack-cocaine and directed by Quentin Tarantino on a
blood-thirsty day. This book may be dark but its underlying message
is one of hope. Sometimes you have to see the depths of Hades
before you can really appreciate life and health.
Being a manic depressive from just 5, then adding in anorexia,
bulimia, self-harm and hundreds of suicide attempts, "typical"
student substance misuse on the heavy end of "normal," culminating
in a long hospitalisation when I was an Oxford doctoral student in
clinical medicine. I ended up totally "mad," in a long-term
psychotic mixed episode (being both manic and depressed
concurrently, and suffering from delusions and hallucinations) and
several actual deaths that I was revived from.
This is my autobiographical tale, a girl who came from nowhere
"up North" to study medicine at Oxford University and spent the
majority of her life quite literally mad, but never stopped
laughing about it. This suits a wide audience for personal and
professional reasons. I want to reach sufferers, carers, and
professionals. I am proof that anything can be overcome, what
should not be survived can be, and that nothing is more important
in these diseases than hope.
About the Author
Katy Sara Culling was born in Liverpool, North England, in 1975.
Daughter of Sue and Paul Culling, her family moved back to its
roots in Derbyshire, where she grew up along with her younger
sister Beth, in the village of Castle Donington, on the
Derbyshire-Leicestershire border. However, even as young as 5 she
exhibited symptoms of bipolar disorder. She attended a private
school for girls, Loughborough High School, where she was a high
achieving student. Unfortunately, due to bullying and also to numb
her mania and depression, she developed anorexia nervosa and began
to self-harm.
Katy Sara then went to The University of Nottingham, where she
studied Biochemistry and Nutrition. She did her (1st class) thesis
on alcohol and metabolism, interested in the psychology of
Alcoholism. All this was done despite considerable illness
including over 60 suicide attempts and purging-type anorexia - and
yet more bullying. Her good work at Nottingham lead to an offer of
a place at The University of Oxford, where she studied for a PhD
(DPhil) in Clinical Medicine. In her final year she became so ill
with bipolar disorder that she was in hospital (first as a day
patient, then an inpatient, and eventually a sectioned inpatient).
During that year and a half she attempted suicide over 300 times,
dying twice, only to be revived. She finally, at the age of 28 got
a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and the correct medication, and has
been mostly fine ever since. She later wrote up her PhD thesis and
published her results.
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