Mind on Fire - A Memoir of Madness and Recovery Fanning Arnold ThomasPaperback softback
Mind on Fire - A Memoir of Madness and Recovery Fanning Arnold ThomasPaperback softback Arnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his…
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Mind on Fire - A Memoir of Madness and Recovery Fanning Arnold ThomasPaperback softback
Arnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his mother. Thus began a terrible period in which he was often suicidal, increasingly disconnected from family and friends, sometimes in trouble with the law, and homeless in London. Some 10 years later, an up-and-coming playwright, he was overcome by mania and delusions.
Fanning conveys the consciousness of a person living with mania, psychosis and severe depression with a startling precision and intimacy. Drawing on his own memories, the recollections of people who knew him when he was at his worst, and medical and police records, he has produced a beautifully written, devastatingly intense account of madness--and recovery, to the point where he has not had any serious illness for over a decade and has become an acclaimed playwright. Mind on Fire is the gripping, sometimes