There's Something Wrong With Us: A Daughter's Story of Mental Illness, Loss and Healing
Add an unloving, narcissistic mother, a sister exhibiting extremely reckless behavior with bi-polar disorder, a lack of self-esteem issues and you have There's Something Wrong With Us: A Daughter's Story of Mental Illness and Healing. This book addresses emotional abuse by a mother who didn't show love, approval or empathy to her family and the emotional impact it had on all of us. It's not a downer as much as it is a story of survival and overcoming some long odds! With the help of many "Angels" in my path, this is a story of how I dealt with it. This book is written like a novel including many historical facts about places described in and around Greenville, SC. There's also a fair amount of quirky southern characters and humor to go with it-like a hair-brained trip up the interstate with a donkey in the back seat of a Ford sedan, a 70's psychedelic home remodel and almost shooting a home invader who happened to be my mother-in-law! This humor is not meant to minimize the serious nature of mental illness as much as it is to reveal how I coped with it in my life. I primarily want to bring awareness to the impact of emotional abuse, which is as devastating as physical or sexual abuse--except the scars are on the inside instead of outside.
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There's Something Wrong With Us: A Daughter's Story of Mental Illness, Loss and Healing
Add an unloving, narcissistic mother, a sister exhibiting extremely reckless behavior with bi-polar disorder, a lack of self-esteem issues and you have There's Something Wrong With Us: A Daughter's Story of Mental Illness and Healing. This book addresses emotional abuse by a mother who didn't show love, approval or empathy to her family and the emotional impact it had on all of us. It's not a downer as much as it is a story of survival and overcoming some long odds! With the help of many "Angels" in my path, this is a story of how I dealt with it. This book is written like a novel including many historical facts about places described in and around Greenville, SC. There's also a fair amount of quirky southern characters and humor to go with it-like a hair-brained trip up the interstate with a donkey in the back seat of a Ford sedan, a 70's psychedelic home remodel and almost shooting a home invader who happened to be my mother-in-law! This humor is not meant to minimize the serious nature of mental illness as much as it is to reveal how I coped with it in my life. I primarily want to bring awareness to the impact of emotional abuse, which is as devastating as physical or sexual abuse--except the scars are on the inside instead of outside.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798541478068 |
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| Publisher: | Independently Published |
| Publication date: | 07/22/2021 |
| Pages: | 436 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.89(d) |
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