Abductions From My Beautiful Life
Abductions From My Beautiful Life 'THERE IS A SHAPESHIFTER ASLEEP IN MY HEAD. YOU WON'T RECOGNISE ME AS SOMEONE WHO IS ALIVE TO ADVENTURE AND BEAUTY.'Anita Link was thirty-two years old, and six days…
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Abductions From My Beautiful Life
'THERE IS A SHAPESHIFTER ASLEEP IN MY HEAD. YOU WON'T RECOGNISE ME AS SOMEONE WHO IS ALIVE TO ADVENTURE AND BEAUTY.'Anita Link was thirty-two years old, and six days into motherhood, when she experienced a psychotic episode and was trapped on the wrong side of sanity for the first time. AND WHEN IT WAKES YOU WON'T RECOGNISE ME AS MY CHILDREN'S MOTHER, MY HUSBAND'S WIFE, OR THE WRITER, VETERINARIAN AND ADVOCATE THAT I AM.
And then, a few years later, it happened again.This memoir is a look into what can happen to a person's thoughts, emotions and behaviour when they are ravaged by a severe mental illness. It took months in hospital, medications, electroconvulsive therapy and psychological therapies to fully recover. Anita writes compellingly about what psychosis, mania and catatonic depression can feel like.
Her authentic narrative of recovery reveals the hard work it takes to