Title The madness of our lives : experiences of mental breakdown and recovery / Penny Gray ; foreword by Peter Campbell.

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London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.

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Description	1 online resource (204 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-201).
Contents	Dealing with life stresses -- Eating a Mars bar : Jane Pole-Jones -- Counselling was the turning point : Cheryl Stromeyer -- No easy answers : Keith Bright -- My music saved my life : Francie O'Connor -- Women survivors of childhood abuse -- I was lucky in a way : Steph Corby -- I'd always thought crying was a sin : Diane Johnson -- Oops, there goes the telly : Lesley Tutt -- Young men in crisis -- I'd rather it was a chapter I'd forgotten about : Paul Mann -- Doing all right, considering : Adrian Stiles -- It does teach you a bit about human nature : Graeme Wilson -- An insider perspective -- Really enthusiastic about antidepressants : Stephen Goodfellow.
Summary	What precipitates mental breakdown? How do people experience such extremes and ndash; and how do they see others and rsquo; interpretations and interventions? Most important, how do people recover from these episodes and get their lives back? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology of first-hand accounts of mental breakdown and recovery. Eleven very different stories together shed light on what triggers mental breakdown, what it is like to be and lsquo;mad and rsquo;, whether treatment helps and how people reclaim themselves and their lives. Based on tape-recorded interviews with people.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Psychology, Pathological.
	Mental illness -- Anecdotes.
	Mental health -- Anecdotes.
	Mentally ill -- Anecdotes.
	Mental illness.
	Psychiatry.
	MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
	MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
	Mental health. (OCoLC)fst01016339
	Mental illness. (OCoLC)fst01016547
	Mentally ill. (OCoLC)fst01016699
	Psychology, Pathological. (OCoLC)fst01081609
Genre/Form	Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Other Form:	Print version: Gray, Penny. Madness of our lives. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006 1843100576 (DLC) 2006004530 (OCoLC)63703194
ISBN	9781846425042 (electronic bk.)
	1846425042 (electronic bk.)

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