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Diary of a Bipolar Explorer (Paperback)
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Diary of a Bipolar Explorer (Paperback)
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Loot Price R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
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In 2002 Lucy Newlyn found herself incarcerated in a mental hospital
in Leeds. She had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act as a
danger to herself and others during a psychotic episode after
several nights without sleep. The psychosis was triggered by nearly
three years of grieving for a dead sister, followed by a vigil at
her father's deathbed during which she hallucinated that his
hospital ward was a trench in the First World War. The episode
uncovered psychiatric problems, which led in due course to a
diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder (manic depression). This condition,
which involves extreme mood swings, is classified as a disability
and requires medication; but it is also a source of creativity,
giving access to some unusual dimensions of human experience. In
her fifteen-year diary, Lucy Newlyn discloses recurring episodes of
mania, depression, hallucination and paranoid delusion. Describing
her struggles with family life and the workplace, she de-mystifies
bipolarity and critiques an environment which still, even in the
twenty-first century, is suspicious of mental illness. Above all,
she celebrates the discovery that writing poetry enables a
cathartic engagement with her own condition. Diary of a Bipolar
Explorer is not a self-help manual but a candid confessional memoir
which offers no easy solutions. It involves a mixture of
observation and reflection, interspersing poetry with prose.
Written accessibly, it will appeal to anyone interested in mental
illness, creative process and the life of the mind.
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