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Crazy with chapters. Sigursteinn Másson tells the story.
"I wake up alone in an unfamiliar place and have no idea where I am. It doesn't help that I'm heavy and drugged and have difficulty getting out of bed." "The room is dark." Thus begins Sigursteinn Másson's unique account of his life, which has certainly had its ups and downs. Sigursteinn was a prominent journalist in his time and made quite a splash in the media. Then he disappeared from the screen and from the public sphere, but now tells the story of the hardships he went through. With great sincerity, bluntness, but also wit, Sigursteinn discusses his mental illness, how he saw and heard conspiracies around every corner, the war in Kosovo where Sigursteinn was one of the first Western reporters to arrive, the Guðmundur and Geirfinns cases and their role in the illness. And when he approached Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson to get a private jet to get out of the country and funds for living expenses if certain conditions were met. Mad with Sections is a moving account of a contemporary's illness and ambiguous struggles for mental health. and welfare, and how he managed, with the help of good men and women, to come to grips with his mental illness.
"I wake up alone in an unfamiliar place and have no idea where I am. It doesn't help that I'm heavy and drugged and have difficulty getting out of bed." "The room is dark." Thus begins Sigursteinn Másson's unique account of his life, which has certainly had its ups and downs. Sigursteinn was a prominent journalist in his time and made quite a splash in the media. Then he disappeared from the screen and from the public sphere, but now tells the story of the hardships he went through. With great sincerity, bluntness, but also wit, Sigursteinn discusses his mental illness, how he saw and heard conspiracies around every corner, the war in Kosovo where Sigursteinn was one of the first Western reporters to arrive, the Guðmundur and Geirfinns cases and their role in the illness. And when he approached Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson to get a private jet to get out of the country and funds for living expenses if certain conditions were met. Mad with Sections is a moving account of a contemporary's illness and ambiguous struggles for mental health. and welfare, and how he managed, with the help of good men and women, to come to grips with his mental illness.