Mics Uncut S1E7 welcomes Jen Purcell, Psychiatric Nurse and self-published Author of a memoir, Growing Up Mad; a gripping and heart-felt page-turner recalling her life experiences, including her adolescent qualms with her sexuality and bouts with crack-cocaine
in adulthood. However, the pulse of this infectious work is undoubtedly a first-hand account of her bewildered experiences witnessing the transformation of her mother who suddenly suffered a heart attack; triggering psychosis in the form of Paranoid Schizophrenia. Jen’s evolving strength drew from her committed grandparents and her own education which developed on a life-long pursuit to understand the disease that imprisoned her mother.