Ep 4: Surviving untreated mental illness w/ Kate Richards

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Self Conscious

Sophie Weiner

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What is mental illness? Is diagnosis useful? How do you live a full life with a serious mental illness? Self Conscious delves into the lesser-understood areas of mental health and the brain, through interviews with writers, artists, scientists and psychologists.

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Ep 4: Surviving untreated mental illness w/ Kate Richards

Self Conscious

55 minutes 5 seconds

9 months ago

Ep 4: Surviving untreated mental illness w/ Kate Richards

On the first page of Kate Richard’s memoir, she tries to cut off her own arm. Kate is a deeply thoughtful writer, beautiful prose stylist and a successful medical researcher living in Melbourne, Australia. From her memoir’s harrowing beginning unspools a brilliant, lyrical story of surviving severe. Madness: a memoir is full of vividly surreal tales of living through the depths of delusion, paranoia, psychosis and depression over the 15 years it took for her to get effective treatment for her Bipolar II disorder.

Learn more about Kate and her books:

https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/kate-richards

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