FOREWORD
As anyone who has or is suffering from mental illness such as depression will know, it can be a very lonely and confusing time.
I met Mark Senior, the author of this book, over ten years ago. At that time we were both employed by a large financial services organisation. Mark was one of the most successful managers in the entire country and was clearly destined for great things.
We often spoke of the techniques he applied, the consideration he gave to action and consequence and, above all, his enthusiasm and determination to succeed.
No one was more shocked than I when I learned that he had suffered a breakdown which was so severe that he would ultimately be released from the organisation on an ill health pension at the age of just 37.
I did not know or appreciate at that time that just seven short years later I too would be affected by clinical depression.
No one I knew could understand what I was going through, least of all my family, friends and colleagues. I certainly had their sympathy and the support of the medical team but I have never felt more alone.
During one of many conversations with Mark during the early part of my illness he mentioned that he had made a draft of his experiences and asked would I like to read it.
Although all the experiences are his, there were so many, many similarities with the way I felt, the way I was perceived and ultimately the way I was treated by people that I felt no longer alone with my illness.
If you are suffering from or know somebody who suffers from clinical depression, I highly recommend that you read this book. It is a great read, sometimes sad, sometimes funny and always very honest. Above all else it will remind you that you really are not alone.
Mark Eagleton
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Changing Speed
Não FicçãoAs a family man Mark Senior has been to the summit. As a corporate man he has climbed to the peak. As an everyday man he has journeyed to that somewhere place only to find that somewhere was no place that he wanted to be. At the age of 37 having be...
