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Marianne Broug was a music teacher and member of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, whose career was interrupted by severe anxiety, panic attacks and depression. She has had a children's music book Flute with a Twist published. She is now a writer and lives in the Adelaide Hills. |
Who are the real experts when it comes to ‘mental illness’? Other books tend to look at ‘mental illness’ from the outside in, and how suffering can be overcome, but Seventeen Voices: Life and wisdom from inside ‘mental illness’ distils the wisdom and understanding gained from the sufferer’s personal insight and experience. Marianne Broug conducted candid interviews with 17 sufferers of ‘mental illness’, ranging in age from 20 to 74. Their stories cover topics such as the nature of ‘mental illness’, suicide, self-harm, trauma, violence, alcoholism, various forms of therapy and drug use, side effects, homelessness and Aboriginality. People living with ‘mental illness’ are in so many ways forced to live ‘hidden’ lives because of the discomfort of others. This only adds to their suffering and also stigma. Seventeen Voices: Life and wisdom from inside ‘mental illness’ aims to make that suffering more visible and also more understood. Unlike text books it shows the very human face of ‘mental illness’. |
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