A lucid, breathless memoir dissecting a year of insomnia, memory, writing, death, and the will to survive.
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A lucid, breathless memoir dissecting a year of insomnia, memory, writing, death, and the will to survive.
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"In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help. The Shapeless Unease is Harvey's darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful exploration of m...
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Mentions medication and therapy attempts to treat insomnia
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Self-harm / suicide
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Reflects on death and the will to survive amid prolonged distress
Abuse & suffering
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Central account of mental and physical suffering from chronic insomnia
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