Emma Froggatt works on the Guardian Australia culture desk This year has been a dog for most people I know: deaths, trauma, illness, psychotic breakdowns abounded around my friends and colleagues – but as ever books were there to console.
It chronicles the genesis of an artist from a family of dark secrets mental illness, nervous breakdowns, molestation, suicides, drug overdoses, and Freudian love triangles: a harbinger to our age of grand confessionals.
Also, even within illness, further breakdowns may be necessary as differences in caregiving experiences have been identified across various physical illnesses such as cancer, cardiac disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and arthritis [ 31].
(All of it, along with illnesses, tantrums, breakdowns and cast-and-crew picnics, is detailed in Cocteau's memoir "Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film").
In a nutshell, choice theory says that unsatisfying relationships are the source of almost all crime, addiction, mental illness, family breakdown and school failure.
The report identifies a series of imminent risks, including illness, the breakdown of infrastructure and public services, food and water insecurity, and loss of rural livelihoods.
Whatever the reality, Freya veered for years between the urge to decisive, self-fulfilling action — she studied nursing and served, during the Great War, at the Italian front — and a tendency toward illness and breakdown that made her appear headed for the life of a typically quashed female hysteric.
Even if I chose a different life, a healthy one, one that was not tainted by war or illness or breakdown or even Paris, I would always have him in my life: he had vowed in Sarajevo he would never lose me.
Her own female trials — undereducation (save in "modern languages and good manners," her memoir, "A Backward Glance," allows), a stifling marriage, neurasthenic illness and breakdown — came early, and were followed by a long, gathering triumph of best-selling fame and expatriate pomp.
Mental illnesses cause breakdowns in the brain and prevent normal cognitive processing.
