Word: jemimaism
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According to the Times, page 350 of Kinsella’s novel reads: “‘And we’ll tell everyone you got your Donna Karan coat from a discount warehouse shop.’ “Jemima gasps. ‘I didn’t!’ she says, color suffusing her cheeks. “‘You did! I saw the carrier bag,’ I chime in. ‘And we’ll make it public that your pearls are cultured, not real...
...boss helped out by granting her a stint of maternity leave that she wasn't strictly entitled to. "Things were looking fantastic at that point," she says. She figured she'd spend six months at home, put her baby in daycare, and get back to work. But soon after Jemima's birth, "I realized I'd been living in a dream world." Jemima cried constantly and screamed in caf?s when her mother tried to catch up with friends. Confined to a small apartment, worn down by lack of sleep and feeling inadequate and disillusioned, Beddoe visited a G.P., who suspected...
...Beddoe didn't like the idea of going on drugs and decided not to take them. She checked in to the mother-and-baby unit of a private hospital, where staff helped her to settle Jemima. There, after another brief consultation, a psychiatrist diagnosed Beddoe with postnatal depression and suggested she start on Zoloft right away. This time, she relented. A week later, she was in hospital, waiting in good spirits for a group-therapy session, when something happened. She suddenly couldn't breathe and her heart was pounding. The walls seemed to be closing in. She thought...
...medications, she'd been diagnosed with five separate mental disorders and drugged to within an inch of her life. Heavy doses of an antipsychotic have left her a diabetic and her left arm is a canvas of self-inflicted scars. Somehow, her family remains intact. She married Jemima's father, Nigel, in the midst of her trials and the three of them are going strong. She can find it in her to give the SSRIs their due. People have told her these drugs "pulled them out of the depths of despair," she says, "by what mechanism, I don't know...
...September, the gallery celebrates the budding talents of the Australian art world, and this year's "Primavera" has the riotous colors of hothouse flora. Taking as its subject the painted landscape, it's a terrific show - from the airily spiritual (Pedro Wonaeamirri's totem poles) to the patently superficial (Jemima Wyman's fluoro forests). While at times dark in theme (in particular, Madeleine Kelly's ecological dreamscapes are eerily resonant of inundated New Orleans), it's enough to raise your spirits about the state of contemporary art. The buoyant mood continues upstairs on the fourth floor, where the museum...