These are the songs that made me feel something during my roller coaster of mania and depression, throughout the three year time period of my book. Click the Play button to listen on Spotify or scroll below for my songlist.
- Lose Yourself – Eminem
- Closer – Nine Inch Nails
- Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne
- Lithium – Nirvana
- Miss World – Hole
- Not a Pretty Girl – Ani DiFranco
- Breathing Underwater – Metric
- Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
- Spirits – Strumbellas
- We’re Going Home – Vance Joy
- I Alone – Live
- Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
- Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes – Paul Simon
- Mamma Mia – ABBA
- Hurt – Johnny Cash
- Red Football – Sinéad O’Connor
- Epic – Faith No More
- Killing in the Name – Rage Against the Machine
- Running to Stand Still – U2
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – The Platters
- Shallow – Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
- Asleep – The Smiths
- Say You Won’t Let Go – James Arthur
- Our House – Madness
- I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
- I Feel It All – Feist
- Sunflower – Post Malone and Swae Lee
- Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & The Wailers
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About the book:
When Charise Jewell decided to leave her career as a robotics engineer to pursue writing fiction, the 40-year old mother of three had no idea that she was embarking on a real life story beyond her wildest imagination. Without warning, and while preparing to celebrate Mother’s Day 2017, she rapidly descended into a severe mania, was hospitalized, and was given a devastating diagnosis: bipolar 1 mood disorder. Over the following three years, Charise and her family would experience the ups and downs of not only her manic depression, but also of the mental health care system, and the way the society at large treats people with mental illness. Crazy: Memoir of a Mom Gone Mad is a captivating, heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring journey through the pain and beauty of sanity, and insanity.
About the author:
A voracious reader and aspiring writer since childhood, Charise Jewell was born in Germiston, South Africa and immigrated to Canada when she was seven years old. She holds an Honours B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from McGill University in Montreal, and worked as a robotics engineer for fifteen years before having children and becoming a writer. She proudly lives with bipolar disorder and educates for the fair and dignified treatment of the mentally ill. Charise lives in Toronto with her husband and three children.
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