Mind on fire : a memoir of madness and recovery /
By: Fanning, Arnold Thomas.
Series: Wellcome Book Prize. Publisher: Dublin : Penguin Ireland, 2018Description: ix, 275 pages ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781844884292; 9781844884292:; 1844884295.Subject(s): Fanning, Arnold Thomas | Fanning, Arnold Thomas -- Mental health | Depression, Mental | Depression -- Ireland -- Biography
| Depression, Mental -- Treatment | Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Biography | Psychoses | Psychoses -- TreatmentDDC classification: 616.85270092 FAN Awards: Shortlisted for Wellcome book prize 2019.Summary: Arnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his mother. Some ten years later, an up-and-coming playwright, he was overcome by mania and delusions. 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. Drawing on his own memories, the recollections of people who knew him when he was at his worst, and medical and police records, Arnold Thomas Fanning 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.
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Arnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his mother. Some ten years later, an up-and-coming playwright, he was overcome by mania and delusions. 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. Drawing on his own memories, the recollections of people who knew him when he was at his worst, and medical and police records, Arnold Thomas Fanning 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.
Shortlisted for Wellcome book prize 2019.