Frances Wilson

A GP diagnosed me with ‘acute anxiety’ – only to exacerbate it

When Tom Lee suffers a breakdown after the birth of his first child, a doctor warns him against the only drug that proves effective, further adding to his distress

Tom Lee. [Credit: Eleanor de Zoysa] 
issue 04 May 2024
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  • The Bullet: A Memoir

    Tom Lee

    Granta, pp. 208, £14

In 2008, after his first child was born and before he was due to get married, Tom Lee began to unravel. It was as if, he explains in his fragile and unforgettable memoir, ‘some internal switch had been clicked or shorted, leaving my body and mind in a state of unrelenting and unsolvable emergency’.

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