Fast Girl A Life Spent Running From Madness

Suzy Favor Hamilton, Sarah Tomlinson

eBook - 2015

The former Olympic runner and high-end escort reveals her battle with mental illness, and how mania affected her professional and personal lives.A New York Times BestsellerDuring the 1990s, three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton was an American track and field darling. An outstanding runner, a major sports apparel spokesperson, and a happily married wife, she was the model for an active, healthy, and wholesome life. But her perfect facade masked a dark truth: manic depression and bipolar disorder that drove her obsession to perform and win. For years after leaving the track, Suzy wrestled with her condition, as well as the loss of a close friend, conflicted feelings about motherhood and her marriage, and lingering shame about her athletic ...career. After a misdiagnosis and a recommendation for medication that only exacerbated her mania and made her hypersexual, Suzy embarked on a new path and assumed a new identity. Fueled by a... more