By Suzannah Knight
ISBN: 978 1 84747 007 2
Published: 2007
Pages: 158
Key Themes: self-harm, drug abuse, eating disorders, sectioning,
mental health services, schizo-affective disorder, bipolar
disorder, manic depression, alcoholism, the occult
Description
After a year travelling around the World Suzannah comes back to
England to start university. Things start to go wrong as she is
tempted into experimenting with drugs. She drops out of university
and during her first spell of mania and depression starts to
believe in black magic. This is the start of a long and winding
journey for Suzannah as she loses all her friends and former
lifestyle and leads a dubious existence - self harming and
trichotillomania plague and her psyche as she battles with an
eating disorder.
Suzannah is eventually sectioned and finds herself in a secure
unit battling psychosis. She will not admit to herself she has a
problem and refuses to take medication. Lonely and cast adrift she
tries to forge a career for herself, but she can't escape the taboo
of being labelled 'mental'. Some time later she finds herself in
the slums of Darlington, in poverty, and a chronic alcoholic.
Overcoming her demons and fighting her schizo-affective disorder
Suzannah takes life by the balls and gets herself back to
university to finally finish her degree only to once again fall
into mental illness, bad relationships and brushes with the
law.
With four different diagnoses along the journey and various
different forms of medication Suzannah denies her mental illness
for a long time and therefore the psychiatrists were unable to
help. She loses all her friends through mental illness and any form
of normal life until she confronts the problem.
Remarkably and with great character Suzannah's book ends on a
high note as she falls in love and marries the man of her dreams to
live happily ever after with her son Domini. It is through her own
determination and the support of loved ones that Suzannah has
changed her life. She will never be totally rid of her illness but
with sensible management she has succeeded in finding euilibrium.
This is a fascinating and empowering story which should be a great
positive influence to those who find themselves in a similar
situation to Suzannah.
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