Description

A Rip Roaring Laugh Out Loud Comedy About Drunken Debauchery and Vagrancy with A Dash of Mental Illness

By James McLaughlin

ISBN: 978-1-78382-186-0
Published: 2015
Pages: 164
Key Themes: Mental Health, Mental Illness, Alcoholism, Comedy

Description

A Rip Roaring Laugh Out Loud Comedy About Drunken Debauchery and Vagrancy with A Dash of Mental Illness.

Memoirs of Drunken Dementia is a journey of one man drunken memories over the years that he has suffered with his mental illness whilst attempting to survive in a society that does not recognise mental health issues.

There are a number of tales and recounts some clearly fabricated to the extreme in order to extract as much humour from this otherwise marginalised individuals situation.

About the Author

I have been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for many years and I am on a high strength dosage of medication in order to manage this.

I hear voices that tell me to do things and I struggle with this. I feel overly judged, watched and in turn enormous pressure to function in social settings. My paranoia is such that I believe I am the focus of peoples unwanted attention in public, I tend to avoid busy places and dont go to any mainstream community activities like the cinema, it would be overwhelming for me and it would impact heavily on my mental health. Sometimes I am fearful to even leave the house.

Over the years my mental health has been up and down but since as long as I can remember I’ve never been fully right and periods of mental health related incarceration has in my view only served to compound it.