| Author: | Kate Richards | ISBN: | 9781742535623 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia | Publication: | January 19, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Penguin eBooks | Language: | English |
| Author: | Kate Richards |
| ISBN: | 9781742535623 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Publication: | January 19, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Penguin eBooks |
| Language: | English |
Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the�Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize.
It's not every day you get to admit you're mad.
The thing with psychosis is that when I'm sick I believe the delusional stuff to the same degree that you might know the sky is above and the earth below.� And if someone were to say to me that the delusional thinking is, in fact, delusional, well that's the same as if I assure you now that we walk on the sky.� Of course you wouldn't believe me, and that's why it's sometimes so hard for people who are sick like this to know that they need treatment.� Psychosis and severe depression have a huge effect on how you relate to other people and how you see the world.� It's a bit like being in a vacuum, or behind a wall of really thick glass .�. . you lose any sense of connectedness.� You're cast adrift from everyone and everything that matters.
I've lived with acute psychosis and depression for the best part of twenty years.� This is the story of my journey from chaos to balance, and from limbo to meaning.
Kate Richards is a trained doctor currently working in medical research.
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'Demands to be read' ***Sunday Age***�
'Heart wrenching, mind bending' Daily Telegraph
'A mysteriously beautiful book' Michael McGirr, The Age**�
'A gifted writer and storyteller' Courier-Mail
'Astonishing' Herald Sun
Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the�Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize.
It's not every day you get to admit you're mad.
The thing with psychosis is that when I'm sick I believe the delusional stuff to the same degree that you might know the sky is above and the earth below.� And if someone were to say to me that the delusional thinking is, in fact, delusional, well that's the same as if I assure you now that we walk on the sky.� Of course you wouldn't believe me, and that's why it's sometimes so hard for people who are sick like this to know that they need treatment.� Psychosis and severe depression have a huge effect on how you relate to other people and how you see the world.� It's a bit like being in a vacuum, or behind a wall of really thick glass .�. . you lose any sense of connectedness.� You're cast adrift from everyone and everything that matters.
I've lived with acute psychosis and depression for the best part of twenty years.� This is the story of my journey from chaos to balance, and from limbo to meaning.
Kate Richards is a trained doctor currently working in medical research.
�
'Demands to be read' ***Sunday Age***�
'Heart wrenching, mind bending' Daily Telegraph
'A mysteriously beautiful book' Michael McGirr, The Age**�
'A gifted writer and storyteller' Courier-Mail
'Astonishing' Herald Sun
