Eilidh C. Richards

Journey to the Centre of the Mind (eBook, ePUB)

a Mental Gap Year

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Our journey follows protagonist Hannah Higgins, a fortysomething woman, who goes through a turbulent year marked by inner and outer turmoil. The story revolves around her battle against self-destructive behaviours, including excessive drinking and self-medicating, unhealthy relationships and emotional breakdowns. Despite her attempts to appear functional in society, she struggles with feelings of loneliness, anxiety and lack of direction. Through her somewhat chaotic gap year, the reader gets a deeper insight into her mental state, her battles with the healthcare system and her slow journey towards self-awareness and mental recovery, with a hefty dose of dark humour to brighten the more serious parts of the book. Will there be light at the end of the tunnel for Hannah? Or just another brightly coloured shitstorm on the horizon? There is only one way to find out.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788284513157
• Artikelnr.: 73648045

Autorenporträt

Eilidh was born out of desperation on the third day of September in 1983, the year of the pig. She started writing at the age of four and has not stopped since. With a BA in linguistics and an MA in Journalism, you might have thought she would have been able to do something productive in her life before now, but it would take a full-on mental breakdown for her to finally find her own voice and actually listen to it. A long-time sufferer of sometimes crippling OCD, complex PTSD and depression, Eilidh has been in and out of the public and private healthcare system in both her native Norway and the UK. This has given her considerable insight into how overwhelming the experience can be for the patient when they cannot fit into the neat little boxes the system demands. Eilidh has found through her writing an outlet for dealing with her own mental state, as well as profound pleasure in delving into the research and psychoeducation needed to better understand the makings of her own mind, her quick wit and dark sense of humour making the end result rather palatable for the reader. This is her first novel. Eilidh currently resides somewhere in time, but her still-beating heart will always largely belong to Edinburgh, the town that took her in when she had nowhere else to go.