Description
Book SynopsisA moving memoir following the author's own experience of psychosis
What if psychosis is really a wake up call? Emma Goude is a twenty-something who works at the BBC. She likes to party and take drugs... until she decides to give them up... and that's when the insomnia starts. After five nights without sleep she ends up in A&E. Three questions determine whether she is sane or not. Three questions stand between her and the psychiatric ward. She gets them wrong.
Emma is an atheist, a skeptical cynic who chose dope over God, so when she has some spiritual experiences she is not entirely sure if she is delusional. The psychiatric system has forgotten that 'psyche' means soul. All they know about is medication and they have ways of making her take it. It becomes a game she has to play in order to get out. It is also a perception of herself she must do battle with in order to stand strong in her belief that her psychosis is some kind of awakening.
Table of ContentsFOREWORD
EPISODE ONE
CHAPTER ONE: Dope
CHAPTER TWO: Insomnia
CHAPTER THREE: Admission
CHAPTER FOUR: Discharge
EPISODE TWO
CHAPTER FIVE: New Zealand
CHAPTER SIX: Union
CHAPTER SEVEN: Infinity
CHAPTER EIGHT: Shiatsu
EPISODE THREE
CHAPTER NINE: Discovery
CHAPTER TEN: Qigong
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Sectioned
CHAPTER TWELVE: Awakening
EPISODE FOUR
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Soulmate
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Priestess
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Initiation
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Homecare
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Fight
EPISODE FIVE
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Transition
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Honeymoon
CHAPTER TWENTY: Premiere
EPISODE SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: Shakti
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: Workshop
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: Underworld
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: Confession
EPISODE SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: Medium
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX: Dolphin
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN: Retreat
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT: Journeying
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE: Imprisonment
CHAPTER THIRTY: Voices
AFTERWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO KINDLY DONATED TO THE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
