Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me

See larger image Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me (Paperback) By (author) Bobby Baker List Price: $22.95 USD New From: $13.94 In Stock Used from: $11.50 In Stock

In 1996 the artist Bobby Baker was diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Her subsequent struggle to overcome severe mental and later physical illness lasted for 11 years, and was unknown to anyone outside her close family, friends and colleagues. The 158 drawings and watercolours in this book, selected by Bobby from the hundreds more that she created daily as a private way of coming to terms with her experience, are an astonishing record of her slow and harrowing journey to eventual recovery. Moving, startling, shocking and hilarious in turn, these diary drawings reveal the stark realities of living with mental illness and of society’s lack of understanding.

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