Clickety Clack

by Joy S. McDiarmid
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Publish Date: January 25, 2010
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Clickety Clack is Joy McDiarmid's behind-the-scenes self-portrait about bipolar mental illness and one of the most ambiguous sexual identities imaginable. Amidst gender and sexuality confusion, this Winnipeg woman began to look for romantic love and sexual fulfilment: sometimes wanting to dress as a man, sometimes as a woman, sometimes attracted to men, sometimes to women.In candid accounts of this paralysing complexity, which Joy tried valiantly to understand and express despite oppressive social stigmas and parental strictures, her insights about human sexuality and ""living the lie"" are startling even in this age of open commentary about sex.This book weaves together her experiences along primitive frontiers of treatment for bipolar disorders and dramas of shock therapy in psychiatric wards, where entire years of Joy's life would slip by even as earlier years were being erased from her memory, with triumphant accomplishments in her competitive and stimulating world of advertising, university work, private enterprise, photography, travel, touring in her MG sports car, and skilful tennis.Such juxtaposed experiences of defiant courage, supplemented with medical commentary by Joy's psychiatrist Dr. Frances Edye, make Clickety Clack a rare road map to life. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

Author Information

Joy S. McDiarmid

Joy S. McDiarmid trained as a research writer. She held a number of posts in libraries, university, and private enterprise in Canada, the United States, and overseas during her thirty-year career in public relations and communications.

In 1990, Joy retired from her consultant practice and devoted herself to Voices in the Night, a series of audio�cassette programs for cancer patients and family members. She co-�authored three programs, including the six-part award-winning Breast Cancer cassettes.

In September 2001 she moved permanently to Victoria Beach, Manitoba, a vacation community on the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg where she has spent each summer for sixty-eight years. She completed work on A Stony Path: Guidance for Women with Gynecologic Cancers, which was published in Canada in 2006 simultaneously with its release on the web for patients beyond the borders of this country.

In the past ten years, Joy and her companion, �Josephine (Joey) Adamson, who is also her caregiver, have both en��dured treatments for cancers, all of which are in remission. Joy and Joey enjoy their large gardens. They also take an active part in the community life of the village, which swells to a resort population of some 10,000 in a Victorian setting during summertime.

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