Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

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Erasing the line between normal and abnormal, and the sentiment of healing, not curing, is something I think needs to be better taken onboard. The first half of the book describes how he lost touch with reality believing he was part of a global spy ring hoping to save the world and that he was going to marry Kylie Minogue (apparently that is a common delusion).

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This is a striking book: the title, the cover, and the intensity of the first part of the book which embeds the reader in Horatio Clare's experience of mania. Indeed, the patterns of behaviour from mania continue; reluctant to take his medications he lies to his partner he is taking them, just as he lied before about cannabis. whilst he is in hospital and they seem destined to cement their separation, and later their cosy evening routine involving a glass of red wine.And he had significantly less concerns about using cannabis prior to his illness which is also a mind altering substance! His subsequent examination of the current state of psychiatry in the UK and its reliance on drug-based treatments gives pause for thought.

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Especially the first few chapters but that was the madness talking so I don’t think I should have expected different necessarily.I, along with many people who work in mental health, believe medication is over prescribed including psychiatrists.

Book review: Heavy Light, by Horatio Clare - The Scotsman Book review: Heavy Light, by Horatio Clare - The Scotsman

He was offered three drugs while sectioned, with the appropriate required reading about side-effects and possible impacts. pretty much immediately removes all the delusions (other, arguably, than that he is perfectly fine) During the later section of the book where he rightly questions many of our models and practices, he doesn't seem to reflect at all on this occurrence.In a year when all of us have had to face the reality of our wellbeing, and have had our own frailties exposed, this book is a timely reminder that we need to look at the root causes of wellbeing issues, not just medicate them and hope for the best. Such a lucid account of the humiliating process of losing your mind to psychosis and the agonising aftermath. After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act. Peppered through the record are three potent sound collages, fugues of overlapping voices that speak about the experiences they had when they were young and malleable. The women of Remy’s songs are so often threatening to asphyxiate themselves, on the verge of suicide, and mad as hell.