The Episode : A True Story of Loss, Madness and Healing

'A must-read: it hits you right in the heart' Katriona O'Sullivan, author of PoorIt could happen to anyone. One fine April day, Mary Ann Kenny’s husband died suddenly while jogging near their family home.In the months that followed, Mary Ann - who had no history of mental illness - began suffering from depression, and then from a terrifying succession of physical and psychological symptoms, including the delusion that her young children had been harmed by her medications. In this gripping memoir, Mary Ann details her descent into psychosis, her hopitalization, and her inspiring journey back to health and happiness.Drawing on her detailed medical files and on her own recollections, she has created a day-by-day account of what it is like to lose touch with reality while dealing with grief and living in the dreadful knowledge that everything you care about in life is under threat. And The Episode tells the inspiring story of how Mary Ann recovered from her illness, came to terms with her