Unhinged - A Memoir of Enduring, Surviving, and Overcoming Family Mental Illness

Mental health memoirs are a popular category, and every story is different. In Unhinged, Anna Berry recounts her own mental illness, her fight back to a normal life, and her experiences with mental illness in her family. From her mother to her brother and herself, she illustrates the way mental illness can invade not just one life, but the lives of everyone living through it. Unhinged offers not only a message of hope and healing, but also illustrates the smaller triumphs and tragedies that come along the way.

List of contents

AUTHOR'S NOTE
PROLOGUE: Chicago, April 2002
1: Hearing Voices
2: Vienna, Austria, October 1999
3: Chicago, October 2001-April 2002
4: 1999-2002: Nine Years to Enlightenment9
5: A Caretaker's Life
6: Mom: A Relapse
7: Mark: The Lost Cause
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
EPILOGUE: The State of Mental Illness in America
RECOMMENDED READING
NOTES

About the author

Anna Berry is the pen name of a successful journalist, mental-health advocate, and author from the Midwest. With more than 17 years' experience as a professional journalist, writer, and editor, her work has appeared in multiple major media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, the Washington Post, and multiple national magazines, such as New Art Examiner, Dialogue, and DailyWorth.com. In addition to her work as a journalist, Berry has also spent a number of years as a researcher, special-purpose reporter, and policy analyst in the health care industry. You can visit her book website at annaberryauthor.wordpress.com.  

Product details

• Authors: Anna Berry, Berry Anna
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2014
• EAN: 9781442233621
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3362-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, Memoirs, Clinical psychology, Abnormal psychology, Coping with illness & specific conditions, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs