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Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back from the Brink by Ariane Beeston

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sam4444's review

5.0
challenging emotional informative fast-paced
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cl_air_e's review

5.0
challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

laryissa553's review against another edition

5.0
FIVE FUCKING STARS

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5.0
dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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5.0
challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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smareeb's review

5.0
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kestrela's review against another edition

5.0
Far out, this book is raw and readable and gut wrenching and gripping. The writing is beautiful and the story is something else.

From the author’s time as a caseworker at DoCS to inpatient at a mother and baby ward, I feel like this is a journey through some of the darkest places a mother and baby can go.

I adored it and I want to immediately reread it. I also want to give it to all of my mum friends but I’m not sure whether it would help them or break them? I just loved it.

“As the baby dances around the suite, passed from the crook of one arm to another, the midwife ushers me to the shower. I am bloody, torn, empty. Emptied. I have carried this bump with me for nine months, housed this stranger who knows the rhythm of my heart and the sound of my blood, and now he is gone.”

jannah_22's review

5.0
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4.0
emotional informative sad medium-paced
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michelle_quinn's review against another edition

4.5
challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced