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My Mother, My Madness, by Colleen Higgs

My Mother, My Madness, by Colleen Higgs

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A woman reluctantly takes on the responsibility of putting her eccentric rebellious mother into a retirement home, and managing her care. She has her own daughter to raise and nurture, a marriage and a business to hold together, and her own psychological troubles due in good part to how she was mothered.

My mother, my madness is Colleen Higgs diary of her mother's last ten years. It is at once funny, harrowing, mundane, chaotic, and full of insight. It is a rich and moving story which unfolds through its characters like a novel.
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Griffin Shea
Such a reassuring book

Colleen Higgs gives short, intensely private insights into caring for her mother through her last years. It's the minor headaches that take on outsized importance (buying insane amounts of Coke and cigarettes) and the truly scary moments that must be taken in stride (a fire erupting from the said cigarettes). Anyone who's ever cared for someone with mental illness will recognize the doubts, the humour and the weight of juggling the competing needs of caring for yourself while caring for others. Page after page, I thought, "Wow, so I'm not the only one."

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