But I'm Not Depressed A memoir of disintegration eBook Lia Rees
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“Incredible, raw, beautifully written and just captivating”
May Mutter, artist (A Caged Mind)
Lia was a high-performing student at college in Nottingham when a random incident plunged her into a distorted, chaotic new world. Her thoughts and senses could no longer be trusted, and her intellect was gone. She found herself unemployable, drifting through life.
The lab tests, bloodwork and scans found nothing, so she was given a wastebasket diagnosis depression. Psychologists tried to manipulate her out of the “negative thinking” behind the symptoms. What negative thinking? she wondered.
Lia had to find out the truth, because nobody else would do it for her.
But I’m Not Depressed is the bleak but hopeful tale of an individual finding her way through adversity. It offers personal insight into the surreal experience of neurological dysfunction, and a spirited defence of medicine in the face of a modern cult of psychobabble.
“If I gave up searching for a cure, I would never be able to prove them wrong.”
But I'm Not Depressed A memoir of disintegration eBook Lia Rees
Rees describes her book as a medical memoir. At the age of 19 she suffered a brain injury that no one recognized. Instead of being treated for it she was diagnosed with depression and treated for it. It took her the next ten years to get answers and find help for the confusing road it led her down.Rees’ ability to put thought to paper despite the challenges she’s faced absolutely stunned me. The pictures she draws and the feelings she conveys through her words drew me in and mesmerized me. Non-fiction isn’t typically something I read but this caught my eye and I gave it a chance. I’m very glad I did, it’s changed my outlook on my own struggle with depression. A battle that’s very real to me.
But, you say, she wasn’t depressed. She wasn’t, but she was treated as if she was and in so many ways it validates the feelings some of the medical professionals I’ve worked with have left me with.
Her refusal to take no for an answer, her willingness to try anything to heal herself, and her sheer will to keep going when her mind was willing to sit and do nothing impresses and motivates me to do the same for myself. Lia Rees is inspiration and proof that perseverance pays off.
I can’t recommend this book enough. It’s not a long read, but you won’t want to put it down. Her story is sure to inspire you in some way just as it did me.
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But I'm Not Depressed A memoir of disintegration eBook Lia Rees Reviews
The author of But I’m Not Depressed brings us along on a journey unlike any other. Having suffered a rare form of brain injury a decade ago, it took her years to work out exactly what had happened. Given the unusual nature of her affliction, Rees faces the challenge of drawing the rest of us into the bizarre reality she has been trapped in since that fateful day. The sheer bulk of metaphors and analogies she employs seems necessary, or there would be no common frame of reference to enable our understanding. She slips in examples of her witty brand of humor here and there to provide relief from such heavy subject matter.
One cannot help but feel the author’s frustration as she labors to convey the symptoms of her crippling disorder to numerous medical professionals. In her book, Rees delivers scathing rebukes to those who dismiss her desperate attempts at seeking genuine insight into the drastic changes of her psyche. Centered in the sights of her criticism is the field of psychology in the UK as she came to experience it. Rees argues that the entire therapy system is inherently flawed in that therapists refuse to truly listen to their patients. Rather than consider the possibility that a given patient might actually have something to contribute to the discussion, he or she must instead be coddled and guided into an acceptance that they cannot know what’s best for them and must accept the practitioner’s words as gospel truth. On top of this, they seem unable or unwilling to recognize the possibility of a physical cause. Patients who have baffled the medical field send their patients down a road ending in the cul-de-sac of psychotherapy, burning the bridge behind them.
The author did not have the luxury of merely accepting this. Her persisting symptoms would not let her. Taking control of her own treatment, she strikes out on a course to research everything she can to shed light on her condition. One at a time, she rules out explanations that at first promise answers but fail to deliver a final verdict.
One must admire Rees as she does everything she can to cope with daily life hampered by her impairments. Commendable is her continued determination to seek out solutions that will restore the person she was before she lost so much of herself. The very act of compiling years of experiences and analyses into a presentable volume must have been taxing. No book is easy to write, and this author has succeeded despite challenges beyond what most of us can imagine.
At the end of the book she includes a page explaining that while she was able to trace the root cause to a mandatory vaccine, she is adamant that her writing is not an attack on the use of vaccines in general. She was a minority case that fell prey to rare side-effects that all doctors know exist. It is a medical field bereft of the ability and motivation to work with patients of rare conditions that she confronts head on.
Anyone who has ever felt isolated and alone will find much to relate to here. While the author’s condition is extremely rare and possibly one-of-a-kind, this book is recommended reading for anyone who has had to struggle against doctors and medical professionals who fail to take seriously what their patients have to say. The one-size-fits-all approach is efficient and serves many, but there will always be those who slip through the cracks. Testaments like this one have served as precedents for change, historically. Students of the medical and psychological professions ought to have such narratives as required reading in schools, if they don’t already.
Rees presents her opinions and anecdotes so wholeheartedly that it is inevitable that a reader will find something they might not agree with. However, this is more of a strength than a weakness as it challenges us to think. We are treated to an unvarnished view inside the mind of a truly unique person rendered more so by random tragedy.
This book is so thorough it should always be recommended for ANYone with a brain injury--I believe even if their brain injury comes from a different place or has different symptoms, this book will still give them fuel, understanding, direction on piecing together their path. In other words, I love this book. I don't have a brain injury yet this book was fascinating to me and I was with the Rees as she pieced together her life being so thorough, trying beading, trying music, trying every single thing, despite, I believe, her being advised to wait and just sit on the couch or stay in bed or accept her life. Riveting and true and beautiful. I bought the book because it is memoir and because of the title--it drew me in, given I deal with clinical depression that is so debilitating at times I will myself through. I've described it as doom, walking with doom, yet I, too, have never given up, even chanting to myself this will be gone, yet I STILL live with it when it's gone--striving to uncover and use every detail to change IT, to cope, to see what I can learn and my mind can do with everything from drugs recommended by my psychiatrist to a negative ion producer machine. Thank you, Lia. You should have an agent and be published by one of the biggies so more will find this book. As a writer myself, with all the creative writing degrees and four books, while being unknown, I know this.
While I've known people who spent a great deal of time and energy trying to get the medical profession to a., listen to them, and b., correctly diagnose them (let alone prescribe an effective course of treatment), author Lia Rees describes in detail what that journey is like. Her brain injury, which left her able to function at a fraction of her former self, also left her vulnerable to being misdiagnosed with everything from depression (it wasn't depression), to psychosomatic illness.
The author takes the reader on a journey from the early onset of the injury, through the years of being misdiagnosed and mistreated, until she is finally able to reclaim part of her original self and do the research that finally puts her on a (hopefully) more effective path through treatment.
For anyone interested in the effects of brain injuries, or who have perhaps been on a similar journey, or just looking for a well-told story of overcoming the loss of self, I highly recommend this book.
Rees describes her book as a medical memoir. At the age of 19 she suffered a brain injury that no one recognized. Instead of being treated for it she was diagnosed with depression and treated for it. It took her the next ten years to get answers and find help for the confusing road it led her down.
Rees’ ability to put thought to paper despite the challenges she’s faced absolutely stunned me. The pictures she draws and the feelings she conveys through her words drew me in and mesmerized me. Non-fiction isn’t typically something I read but this caught my eye and I gave it a chance. I’m very glad I did, it’s changed my outlook on my own struggle with depression. A battle that’s very real to me.
But, you say, she wasn’t depressed. She wasn’t, but she was treated as if she was and in so many ways it validates the feelings some of the medical professionals I’ve worked with have left me with.
Her refusal to take no for an answer, her willingness to try anything to heal herself, and her sheer will to keep going when her mind was willing to sit and do nothing impresses and motivates me to do the same for myself. Lia Rees is inspiration and proof that perseverance pays off.
I can’t recommend this book enough. It’s not a long read, but you won’t want to put it down. Her story is sure to inspire you in some way just as it did me.
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