Results for "Crazy" in Abuse

You’ve asked yourself the question. What’s wrong with me? After the conversation. After the confusion. After something didn’t land the way it should have. Maybe you’ve called it narcissism. Maybe you’ve tried to understand the behavior, the traits, the patterns. But no matter how much you analyze it, something still doesn’t fully make sense. Because this isn’t just about narcissism. It’s about the system around it.

Leslie Morgan Steiner met the love of her life at age 22, soon after graduating from Harvard and starting her first job at Seventeen magazine in New York. She fell for his self-deprecating wit and street smarts - and especially his unabashed worship of her. They married and spent four years together. At first Leslie felt like the woman of his dreams. Then she discovered her husband had been beaten as a child, taught by his parents that intimacy and rage danced together.

Emma Jane has lived a thousand colourful lives. She escaped a small town and a traumatic childhood by moving to Sydney, where she made an indelible imprint on the oppressively blokey mediascape. She played in an all-girl band, married a rock star she hardly knew, had a baby, ditched journalism for academia and changed her name from Emma Tom to Emma Jane. But all the while, she was struggling with her mental health. Then, during the first Sydney lockdown she was accidentally sectioned in a psychiatric ward.