Interview with Mary Brooks, author of Mary Lives A story of Anorexia Nervosa & Bipolar Disorder

Publication Date: March 5, 2014
Publisher: XlibrisAU
Formats: Ebook
Pages: 396
Genre: Mental Health
Tour Dates: July 24th-August 4th

     

In this chaotic, desperate storm the brain tries hard to gather its fragmented parts, and anchor down the guy lines. To weather out this hopelessness, this turmoil and this pain, -prevent disintegration until the calm returns and clear skies come again.In this chaotic, desperate storm the brain tries hard to gather its fragmented parts, and anchor down the guy lines. To weather out this hopelessness, this turmoil and this pain, -prevent disintegration until the calm returns and clear skies come again.

Do you have a daily writing routine? 

No, I have been very slack lately and need to get back to it. 

Where do you do most of your writing? 

At my computer. 

Where did you grow up? Can you tell us a little about it? 

I grew up in Mascot, New South Wales Australia, in the 1950s. I didn’t go without and had 2 loving parents, but unfortunately, they didn’t know what to do with me when I became depressed and anorexic, and when I became a hospitalized Psychiatric patient, I lost contact with my family for about 15 years. 

What is your motto in life/writing? 

My motto in life is “Do Unto Others” 

What inspired you to writing your book? 

Writing this book I was inspired by realizing how far I had come, and deciding to share that with others. And hopefully helping others as well.

Mary is a General Practitioner, a Family Doctor, and became anorexic and depressed at age 12. She writes of the chaos and pain of her life, through her abnormal adolescence and adult years, to the equilibrium of the current day. It is an enlightening and inspiring story of Anorexia Nervosa and Bipolar Affective Disorder or Manic Depression.