Quite Mad An American Pharma Memoir

Diagnosed With Severe Anxiety, Ptsd, And Ocd In Her Early Twenties, Sarah Fawn Montgomery Spent The Next Ten Years Seeking Treatment And The Language With Which To Describe The Indescribable Consequences Of Her Mental Illness. Faced With Disbelief, Intolerable Side Effects, And Unexpected Changes In Her Mental Health As A Result Of Treatment, Montgomery Turned To American History And Her Own Personal History-including Her Turbulent Childhood And The Violence She Faced As A Young Woman-to Make Sense Of The Experience. Blending Memoir With Literary Journalism, Montgomerysnbsp;quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoirnbsp;examines Americas History Of Mental Illness Treatment-lobotomies To Sterilization, The Rest Cure To Prozac-to Challenge Contemporary Narratives About Mental Health.