Image by Hachette Australia, publisher of Running like China
The odds are not in your favour if you’re hoping to cruise through life, avoiding the crushing weight of mental illness. At the very least, someone you love has probably spent too many days feeling stripped of their identity.
Maybe that someone is you?
A staggering one-in-five Australians find themselves trapped inside the belly of the beast and cannot see a way out. Tragically, many go on to take their lives, with suicide being the biggest killer of young people across the nation.
For a scourge that’s so widespread, there’s so much we don’t know, or are not willing to talk about.
Just ask Sophie Hardcastle, author of Running like China, a brave memoir about her battle with bipolar and her stubbornness to thrive, in spite of it. “We don’t have enough education, even in schools when I was growing up…not knowing is what scares people the most,” she tells me, as we meet to discuss her book.
Maybe that someone is you?
A staggering one-in-five Australians find themselves trapped inside the belly of the beast and cannot see a way out. Tragically, many go on to take their lives, with suicide being the biggest killer of young people across the nation.
For a scourge that’s so widespread, there’s so much we don’t know, or are not willing to talk about.
Just ask Sophie Hardcastle, author of Running like China, a brave memoir about her battle with bipolar and her stubbornness to thrive, in spite of it. “We don’t have enough education, even in schools when I was growing up…not knowing is what scares people the most,” she tells me, as we meet to discuss her book.
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