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History Of Mental Illness Survivor: Tilly Dunn

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Mental Illness Survivor Relates How She Overcame the Ordeal Tilly Dunn was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (called manic depression in the past) as an adult. She battled mental illness for 51 years. How is it to suffer mental illness for decades? Ask Tilly Dunn, a Dutch who immigrated as a child to Canada from Holland with her family. Dunn suffered from duality at an early age due to her unique upbringing, and she got depressed when she moved with her family to their new country. She shares her history of, struggles with, and victory over mental illness in her memoir Thinking Exit Stage Left: From Suicidal to Imaginative Moving Forward with a Healthy Mind (Balboa Press, 2015). Thinking Exit Stage Left is a profoundly honest account of what

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