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Abstract
Growing up in a deprived area of North East England in the 1970’s, alcoholism and violence played a huge role in Karen’s everyday family life. But things were only to become more difficult when, at the age of seventeen, she began her battle with anxiety and depression, an illness nobody recognised.
At times feeling as though she was locked inside her own mind, Karen tried to make sense of her heightened and intense emotions. Her reality became a devastating, deteriorating state of existence, and no one seemed to understand what was happening to her.
A number of harrowing, recurrent and often bizarre episodes – including a phantom pregnancy, a nightclub assault, and an unhealthy obsession with a celebrity – eventually lead to Karen being sectioned under the mental health act and taken into hospital. It then took years and many more dramatic relapses before doctors would finally give her the correct diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
This is a no-holds-barred, inspirational true story of how, despite losses and difficulties along the way, Karen Manton learned to manage her illness, stay out of hospital, and find those ‘brighter days’.
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Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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FRONTCOVER | 1 | ||
COPYRIGHT | 3 | ||
CHAPTER 1 It's Not Easy Being an Only Child | 8 | ||
CHAPTER 2 My World in One Word: Grangetown | 21 | ||
CHAPTER 3 No Longer Just a Child | 27 | ||
CHAPTER 4 My First Love | 34 | ||
CHAPTER 5 End of a Dream | 41 | ||
CHAPTER 6 Spiralling | 47 | ||
CHAPTER 7 Going Back to Go Forward | 53 | ||
CHAPTER 8 Something Better Lies Ahead | 62 | ||
CHAPTER 9 There's a First for Everything . . .And a Second | 66 | ||
CHAPTER 10 Here We Go Again | 74 | ||
CHAPTER 11 What Had I Done? | 80 | ||
CHAPTER 12 Finding a Purpose | 89 | ||
CHAPTER 13 It's Never as Easy as You Think | 97 | ||
CHAPTER 14 A Premonition Comes True | 105 | ||
CHAPTER 15 A Dream Turns into a Nightmare | 112 | ||
CHAPTER 16 A Return | 123 | ||
CHAPTER 17 Dad's Steady Decline | 129 | ||
CHAPTER 18 The End Approaches | 139 | ||
CHAPTER 19 The Nightmare Becomes a Dream | 146 | ||
CHAPTER 20 We Spiral Once Again | 152 | ||
CHAPTER 21 A Betrayal and a Breakdown | 159 | ||
CHAPTER 22 At Last, a Real Diagnosis! | 168 | ||
CHAPTER 23 Light at the End of the Tunnel | 174 | ||
CHAPTER 24 My Lightbulb Moment | 180 | ||
CHAPTER 25 How I Cope Now | 184 | ||
CHAPTER 26 Searching for Brighter Days | 192 | ||
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 194 |