Main description:

What if psychosis is really a wake up call? Emma Goude is a twenty-something who works at the BBC. She likes to party and take drugs... until she decides to give them up... and that's when the insomnia starts. After five nights without sleep she ends up in A&E. Three questions determine whether she is sane or not. Three questions stand between her and the psychiatric ward. She gets them wrong.

Emma is an atheist, a skeptical cynic who chose dope over God, so when she has some spiritual experiences she is not entirely sure if she is delusional. The psychiatric system has forgotten that 'psyche' means soul. All they know about is medication and they have ways of making her take it. It becomes a game she has to play in order to get out. It is also a perception of herself she must do battle with in order to stand strong in her belief that her psychosis is some kind of awakening.

Contents:

FOREWORD

EPISODE ONE

CHAPTER ONE: Dope

CHAPTER TWO: Insomnia

CHAPTER THREE: Admission

CHAPTER FOUR: Discharge

EPISODE TWO

CHAPTER FIVE: New Zealand

CHAPTER SIX: Union

CHAPTER SEVEN: Infinity

CHAPTER EIGHT: Shiatsu

EPISODE THREE

CHAPTER NINE: Discovery

CHAPTER TEN: Qigong

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Sectioned

CHAPTER TWELVE: Awakening

EPISODE FOUR

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Soulmate

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Priestess

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Initiation

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Homecare

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Fight

EPISODE FIVE

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Transition

CHAPTER NINETEEN: Honeymoon

CHAPTER TWENTY: Premiere

EPISODE SIX

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: Shakti

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: Workshop

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: Underworld

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: Confession

EPISODE SEVEN

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: Medium

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX: Dolphin

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN: Retreat

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT: Journeying

CHAPTER TWENTY NINE: Imprisonment

CHAPTER THIRTY: Voices

AFTERWORD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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