Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

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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. Like 2018’s In a Poem Unlimited, Heavy Light is a sideways look at the history of pop music and the capitalist world in which it thrives. The status and modus operandi of consultant psychiatrists perhaps another matter - there are some hints of Kafka, of Catch-22 here. But to then go on to detail his own journey of healing and recovery and to then question why it is not more widely available for others is inspirational.

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Many people do not want therapy and look to a medication just to reduce some of the distress they’re experiencing. Only the mind of Meg Remy can take the trauma inflicted on Earth and our childhoods and create something as wonderful as Heavy Light, another vivid and highly affecting album of experimental pop music. Many people make time to talk with him when asked afterwards about his experience, their involvement in it, or with our approach more generally to mental illness - from the Chief Superintendent of police in the area and NHS management, to those trialling new strategies or critiquing old ones, to a ward nurse and the social worker who effected his section. Horatio Clare's harrowing account of his descent into psychosis gives the reader a rare insight into the world as seen through the eyes of a delusional person suffering from mental health issues.Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Horatio has written about Ethiopia, Namibia and Morocco, and now divides his time between South Wales, Lancashire and London.

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From hypomania in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed - or not - by treatment. The second half retraces the steps of the first, investigating how mental health support systems work - or, just as often, fail to. After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act. Harrowing account of a manic episode and well-written, hard-to-read diary of days as an involuntary, sectioned patient in a mental health facility. Brave and hugely important, this is a searingly honest account of what happens when the balances in the brain go wrong, and how ill-prepared we are as a country to deal with it effectively and humanely.Partly a tribute to those who looked after Horatio, from family and friends to strangers and professionals, and partly an investigation into how we understand and treat acute crises of mental health, Heavy Light 's beauty, power and compassion illuminate a fundamental part of human experience.

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If you have ever come in contact with psychosis and wondered what the person was going through, or if you have suffered a psychotic episode, this book is a glimpse into that alternative reality. Mental illness is deeply complex and contested and it is too much to ask that he can provide the answers.Heavy Light is Horatio Clare's description of his experience being committed to a hospital after having a mental break. He doesn't quite talk of the 'positives' or things about himself which might be attractive but I wondered about his partner's acquisition of a husky puppy (a puppy! This book starts of my the first few chapters describing the inside of Horatio’s head when he’s in the throes of madness. I can’t think of a more astute way to begin the discussions about mental health that must begin than his analysis of how phrases like “I cracked up” or “I broke down” or “I lost it” can have very different meanings in different contexts. I had already read Horatio Clare's book, The Light in the Dark which was about him coming to terms with a diagnosis of a kind of extreme, SAD condition known as cyclothymia and how he attempts to weather a winter in the Yorkshire Dales.