Rebekah Beddoe began studying professional writing with a view to writing about her experiences living with what was then diagnosed as post-natal mental illness. Ironically, before she’d put pen to paper the real cause of this erroneous diagnosis was becoming apparent. What was to be a documented journey of a slide into chronic mental illness instead became her book Dying for a Cure which was published by Random House in Australia and Hammersmith Press in the UK.