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1 online resource |
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Chapter 1 A promising future / Cathy Wield -- chapter 2 Working mother / Cathy Wield -- chapter 3 Falling into the pit / Cathy Wield -- chapter 4 Time is no great healer / Cathy Wield -- chapter 5 Freely consenting? / Cathy Wield -- chapter 6 Concerns for everyone / Cathy Wield -- chapter 7 Torture made perfect / Cathy Wield -- chapter 8 The therapeutic environment / Cathy Wield -- chapter 9 Attempt at a slow death / Cathy Wield -- chapter 10 Last resort / Cathy Wield -- chapter 11 Winter of discontent / Cathy Wield -- chapter 12 The new millennium / Cathy Wield -- chapter 13 Summer, pain and shame / Cathy Wield -- chapter 14 Dear Diary / Cathy Wield -- chapter 15 North of the border / Cathy Wield -- chapter 16 The padded cell / Cathy Wield -- chapter 17 Impatient and in disgrace / Cathy Wield -- chapter 18 Interminable battle / Cathy Wield -- chapter 19 The Health Commissioners' visit / Cathy Wield -- chapter 20 Mayflower or high security prisoner / Cathy Wield -- chapter 21 A date at last / Cathy Wield -- chapter 22 Never a dull moment / Cathy Wield -- chapter 23 The end of the road / Cathy Wield -- chapter 24 Light at the end of the tunnel / Cathy Wield -- chapter 25 What on earth is email? / Cathy Wield -- chapter 26 Future considerations / Cathy Wield -- chapter 27 A taste of the past / Cathy Wield -- chapter 28 Postscript / Cathy Wield -- chapter In sickness and in health / Phil Wield -- chapter A doctor's view / David Baldwin |
| Summary |
Life After Darkness is the remarkable and moving story of a doctor and mother of four who endured seven years of severe depression. Self-harm, attempted suicides and admissions to psychiatric units culminated in her resorting to brain surgery as a final attempt to escape her illness. The story of Cathy Wield covers the horrors of time spent in archaic institutions and the loss of any hope, to a full recovery following surgery. Today she has returned to her career and rediscovered the joys of life and her family. This story is one of hope from an often hidden and stigmatized disease |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 27, 2018) |
| Subject |
Wield, Cathy, 1959-
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| SUBJECT |
Wield, Cathy, 1959- fast |
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Depressed persons -- Biography
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Physicians -- Mental health
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Depression, Mental -- Popular works
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Depressed persons
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Depression, Mental
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Physicians -- Mental health
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Biographies
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Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315345093 |
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1315345099 |
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