Diary Drawings Mental Illness and Me

In 1996 Bobby Baker was diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Her subsequent struggle to overcome severe mental and later physical illness lasted for eleven years. The moving, startling, shocking, and hilarious drawings in this book are an astonishing record of her slow and harrowing journey to eventual recovery. Bobby Baker studied painting at St. Martin's School of Art, is artistic director of Daily Life Ltd, and has a part-time senior research fellowship at Queen Mary University of London.