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About this book
Alexis Quinn has always known she was different. Academically and athletically gifted, she soared through her years in education but failed to socialise adequately with her peers. Somehow, social norms just passed her by. But her difference had always been her strength, until the birth of her child and the death of her brother, Josh; then her difference became her downfall. Unable to deal with the reality of what happened with Josh, Alexis was detained under the mental health act against her will. She found herself struggling for years, with diagnosis after diagnosis landing on her shoulders. Told repeatedly by doctors that she was dangerous, Alexis tried to become the person the system wanted her to be: someone normal. But it seemed that normal was always just out of reach. As time went by, she realised that the care she thought was going to help her might just be the very thing that would destroy her. Raw and honest, Unbroken tells the story of a strong woman learning how to live beyond diagnosis.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- The Author
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Josh
- Chapter 2: Family
- Chapter 3: Abidemi
- Chapter 4: How I Became “Mad”
- Chapter 5: Crisis Team
- Chapter 6: Incarcerated in the NHS
- Chapter 7: Quetiapine
- Chapter 8: Beginning of Poor Treatment and Abuse
- Chapter 9: Occupational Therapy
- Chapter 10: Meltdown
- Chapter 11: Ruby
- Chapter 12: Unique Diagnosis
- Chapter 13: Nurse Logan
- Chapter 14: Maisie and Compassion or Lack Of
- Chapter 15: Leg Injury
- Chapter 16: Care Programme Approach Meeting
- Chapter 17: Cage Transfer
- Chapter 18: Seclusion
- Chapter 19: PICU Ivy Suite
- Chapter 20: Accuphase
- Chapter 21: Section 17
- Chapter 22: Appalling
- Chapter 23: Judy
- Chapter 24: Auntie Ellen’s Visit
- Chapter 25: My Mate Blair
- Chapter 26: PICU Slade at Beckton
- Chapter 27: Freezing in Seclusion
- Chapter 28: Sexual Assault
- Chapter 29: Felicity Hart
- Chapter 30: Assessment for York
- Chapter 31: Assessment for York
- Chapter 32: The Long Wait for a Bed
- Chapter 33: Two Tales of Student Nurse Georgia
- Chapter 34: Land’s End
- Chapter 35: York at Last
- Chapter 36: Diagnosis – High-Functioning Autism
- Chapter 37: Desperate
- Chapter 38: Spoon Theory
- Chapter 39: Autism Specialist Unit
- Chapter 40: European Vacation
- Chapter 41: Seeing the Doctor
- Chapter 42: The Plan
- Chapter 43: Dear Ivy Suite
- Chapter 44: Henry is Too Tired to Do His Job
- Chapter 45: Desensitisation
- Chapter 46: What to Do with Me?
- Chapter 47: Rehabilitation
- Chapter 48: Learning to Manage
- Chapter 49: What Xmas Means to Me
- Chapter 50: At University, Still Mad
- Chapter 51: Jenny and David
- Chapter 52: Communication
- Chapter 53: My Letter to Dr Malvada
- Chapter 54: Still Trying to Manage
- Chapter 55: Yes or No?
- Chapter 56: The H5
- Chapter 57: Unsettled
- Chapter 58: The Cliff
- Chapter 59: Now What?
- Chapter 60: New Plan
- Chapter 61: Free
- Chapter 62: At Jaz’s
- Chapter 63: Cold Turkey
- Afterword
- References
- Back Cover