Life Interrupted

Samantha is stamped with a ‘bipolar' label that becomes the trajectoryfor her tortured existence. For the next three decades she will windthrough a maze of anguished suffering, accompanied by memoryeffacingmedical interventions in the form of electroconvulsivetherapies, heaps of pills and repellent hallucinations. As her helplessfamily and loved ones watch, often in terror, Samantha yo-yos betweenacceptance and denial of her diagnosis. Time and again believing sheis well, she plummets into the devastating chasm of her illness.Through a series of enlightening encounters and hard-fought-forrealisations, she finally manages to transform herself. Acceptancefinds its breath, and so does she. Today Samantha lives an inspiringlife reclaimed.Life Interrupted is a deeply compelling memoir that brilliantly humanisesthe sufferer beyond the label. It is groundbreaking in the waythe author shares the horrors of psychosis and unbounded mania, thefears of depression and the emergence of recovery. This book will notonly appeal to the over four million people diagnosed with bipolar inSouth Africa, but to the millions of people who are affected by lovedones with bipolar, as well as to everyone who reads it.