Don't Wait for Me by Ros Morris

Don't Wait for Me by Ros Morris

Ros Morris's son Zach was a bright young musician who seemed on the brink of success when his behaviour suddenly spiralled out of control. He began using more powerful and dangerous illegal drugs and stayed up all night writing strange mathematical equations on his bedroom walls and drawing diagrams of spacecraft and pyramids. His once intelligent conversation deteriorated into mindless babble and at one point he thought he was God. Over the next eight years, after he was diagnosed as suffering from bipolar disorder, Zach was sectioned under the Mental Health Act on numerous occasions and his family had to repatriate him from three different continents when his psychosis re-emerged while he was travelling. Don't Wait for Me is a mother's harrowing account of her son's descent into the hell of drug abuse and mental illness. It vividly describes the nightmare her family went through and highlights the despair, guilt, helplessness and anger experienced by all those involved.

"Ros Morris has written a very brave bookShe opens her front door and painstakingly and eloquently lets you in to the heart and soul of her family" -- Andrew Loog Oldham
"I thoroughly recommend this book . . . gripping reading" -- Trisha Goddard
"Informative and eye-opening . . . gives an invaluable insight into the world of a bi-polar sufferer's family" * Daily Record *

Ros Morris has a post-graduate degree in history and was a researcher at the Imperial War Museum on the Holocaust Exhibition.

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ISBN 13	9781845963422
ISBN 10	1845963423
Title	Don't Wait for Me
Author	Ros Morris
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	2008-07-03
Number of pages	288
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