That Was When People Started to Worry: Young women and mental illness

'This is mental illness. It is unexpected strength and unusual luck and an uninterrupted string of steps. Then the next wave comes. And while you wipe grit from your eyes and swipe blood from your knees, the smiling faces in the distance call out: Why do you keep falling over?! Just stand up!'



Conversations about mental health are increasing, but we still seldom hear what it's really like to suffer from mental illness.



Enter Nancy Tucker, author of the acclaimed eating disorder memoir, The Ti...