Driven by Demons: Bipolar Olympian

Crooks, Tim: - Tim Crooks was brought up in Surrey vicarages and educated in independent schools. He excelled at rowing and sculling on the Thames, served an apprenticeship with BSA Motorcycles, raced motocross bikes and, as a member of the GB rowing team for eight years, earned a string of medals, including an Olympic Silver. Tim has worked primarily as an engineer and teacher, and also as an artist blacksmith and landscaper. He is married with children and grandchildren. When he was a teenager, his emotions especially anger and depression puzzled him. Years later, he was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder and the broad knowledge of the disorder now qualifies him to write about the illness, his life, and his sport.