Book 1991
Loony Bin Trip
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- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- General
- Biography & Autobiography
- United States
- Specific Groups - Special Needs
- Manic-depressive psychoses
- Biography
- Depression, Mental
- Feminists
The Loony-Bin Trip is the gripping personal story of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after being diagnosed as manic-depressive. Through a searing circle of events beginning with Millett's decision to go off medication, and a summer of increasingly ominous doubts about her own sanity and the loyalty of her friends, to a hellish sojurn in an Irish mental hospital and a paralyzing bout of depression, Millett shows us from the inside what devastation the specter of madness can cause. Shockingly honest, The Loony-Bin Trip may revolutionize the way we think about mental illness.