me and her a memoir of madness reveals how karen tyrrell a dedicated australian teacher is repeatedly harassed by parents at her school to breaking point and beyond in a fit of desperation she escapes and runs police and medical professionals discover her hiding in a lonely motel forcing her into the frightening world of the psychiatric system the reader is taken back to the classroom discovering how the harassment affected karen as we journey through her gradual decline and disintegration leading to her incarceration later karen performs an experiment purposefully stressing over a disturbed student keeping herself awake at night all in order to kickstart the creative ideas she craves karen reveals her psychic relationship with her psychologist her pitchblack manic dreams and her two personas mewife mother writer and teacher hermanic psychic healer to the living telepathic to the dead and shes very psychotic why did she become so crazy how did she claw her way back from insanity