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The past middle-distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the very first time about her battle with mental illness and exactly how mania managed and compelled her in competition but also in life. That is a heartbreakingly honest yet hopeful memoir similar to Manic, Electroboy, and An Unquiet Mind. Through the 1990s three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton was the darling of American trail and field. An outstanding runner, a major sports-apparel spokesperson, and a happily married partner, she was the model for a dynamic, healthy, and wholesome life. But her perfect facade masked a dark fact: manic depression and bipolar disorder that drove her obsession to execute and win. For a long time after giving the trail, Suzy wrestled with her condition as well as the loss of a close friend, conflicted thoughts about motherhood and her relationship, and lingering shame about her athletic profession. After a misdiagnosis and a suggestion for medication that only exacerbated her mania and made her hypersexual, Suzy embarked on a fresh way and assumed a fresh identity. Fueled by the newfound confidence, a feeling of durability, and freedom and a desire she couldn't tamp down, she became a high-priced escort in Las Vegas, working as "Kelly". But Suzy cannot keep her dual life a magic formula forever. When it was eventually revealed, it directed her into a reckless suicidal period where the only option looked like out. Finally, with the aid of her devoted partner, Suzy got the correct medical help she needed. Within this startling, frank memoir, she recounts the voyage to outrun her demons, revealing how a female used to literally handling her body learned to come to terms with her unstable mind.
