It's just an account of the worst year of my life : perzine on mental illness / by Laura Saunders.

[Derbyshire] : Laura Saunders, [2017?]

34 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

"Hello! I am 25 years old, married and living in the peak district with my cat Strax. I am studying for a PhD in MRI physics and in my spare time I create zines, cook vegan recipes and volunteer. Oh and last year I had a break down. I write and talk about mental health a lot, but it's hard to condense a year of intensely painful mental illness and feeling like I was losing my mind into a neat narrative. Looking back on my PhD notebooks I can track my deteriorating mental health as the notes on science get sparser and the endless doodles sky rocket. It occurred to me that perhaps I could use those doodles in a zine - and I started to sort through nine notebooks and lab books for anything interesting. At the same time I came across a lot of memories, and I figured these doodles were as good a way as any of constructing a narrative for the last year. That is how this zine happened. This zine is a perzine - it's just an account of the worst year of my life."--From Introduction.

This zine has non-standard binding. It has a machine sewn spine in pink thread.

Title from cover.

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