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Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery is the story of Helen Dempsey and her daughter Ann who both fall victim to the same regimen of overmedication at the hands of the mental health system. Helen struggles with intractable depression and initially turns to self-medication with alcohol, but finds herself unable to recover despite numerous drugs, hospitalizations, and electroconvulsive therapy. Ann vows to build a different life for herself, but eventually descends into the pain of a mysterious migraine and intractable darkness lasting for many years.
Severely overmedicated with opioids and psychiatric drugs, Ann crashes her car twice. Because traditional medical treatments have failed her, she challenges her doctors' advice and discovers ways to heal the source of her physical and emotional pain without drugs. The question of why her mother never got well continues to haunt her long after her mother's death until she finds the missing puzzle pieces she'd searched for all her life stashed in a dusty box in her sister's attic.
Blurb I wrote for Ann’s book:
Ann Bracken artfully braids her path out of chronic pain and major depression while questioning the system designed to help her, and reaching back into her mother’s history to find a way to help her too. Her journey of self-discovery and healing provides an alternative to the traditional mental health care system that fails so many of us with just more pills and appointments. I saw myself (and many women friends) in her story, too: the blind trust that many of us give when we put our mental health in the hands of doctors who are misled to thinking that pills are the cure to for our life situations, the abuse and trauma we have endured, and the human condition itself.
The author gives us permission to ask questions about our current mental health treatment, read and educate ourselves on the risks, benefits, and alternatives to the status quo system, and above all, not to quit until we find our own path to a healed life. Through compassion for the people that hurt us and the bittersweet moments that come along the way, Ann shows us a path that leads to a full heart and a clear mind. Let Ann’s story break open the possibility that life can be and is good without (or with less) medication. There are many of us who have taken the same path she found and reclaimed our minds and our lives.
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