I CATCH FIRE TOO OFTEN

This first graphic novel by young author and illustrator Charlotte Gosselin addresses mental health from the perspective of someone living with mental illness. This story offers a very personal, unique, and taboo-free insight into suicide, self-harm, anorexia, and psychiatry.

This book expresses the hypersensitivity that accompanies the illness on a daily basis, without going into medical details or terms. Through images and poetry, we follow the journey of a young woman grappling with a fire that too often consumes her. It offers a touching and different perspective on people and illness. Throughout the pages, a form of beauty unfolds behind the drama, through friendships (especially among patients) and the relationship the character has with herself. Psychiatry is an unknown world where patients share a loneliness and malaise that, when sensitively told, can be felt by everyone. An intimate and important book, beautifully illustrated by the author.