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January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save
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- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- January First: a Child's Descent Into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
- Item Height
- 211mm
- Publisher
- Hardie Grant Books
- Topic
- Memorials, Coping with Illness
- Item Width
- 138mm
- Item Weight
- 380g
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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A harrowing memoir from the father of a seven-year-old girl, January First is the desperate story of Michael's mission to find out what is wrong with his highly intelligent daughter. Right from when she was a newborn, January has kept her parents on their toes: as a baby she slept for only 20 minutes at a time, as a one year old she spoke in complete sentences, at two she asked about negative numbers, and by three had literally hundreds of imaginary friends. But when her brother Bodhi arrives her behaviour becomes increasingly violent, her never-ending delusions and hallucinations interspersed with paroxysms of rage that eventually force her parents to live in separate one-bedroom apartments - communicating with walkie-talkies to keep her brother safe. As her father does the rounds of child psychologists, doctors and locked hospital wards, he provides an unflinchingly honest account of parenting, as well as an indictment of the lack of care for children with severe mental illness. January First shows the passionate dedication of a father who refuses to give up on his little girl even as her behaviour becomes ever more alien. An eventual diagnosis is reached of one of the most severe cases of child-onset schizophrenia that doctors have ever seen: January is hallucinating 95 percent of the time that she is awake and potent psychiatric drugs that would level most adults barely faze her.
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Hardie Grant Books
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9781742705033
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Book Title
January First: a Child's Descent Into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Coping with Illness
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
208 Pages
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Item Height
211mm
Item Width
138mm
Item Weight
380g
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Australia
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