I haven’t been blogging much lately because I’ve been working very hard to finish our book, Despair to Deliverance: A True Story of Triumph Over Severe Mental Illness. I remain very grateful to the people who read the final draft … Continue reading
Somewhere around the beginning of February, we finished the final draft of our book and sent it to a number of friends, family and acquaintances for feedback. We had been working on it for two years. A large part of … Continue reading
It was 2008, and I had long ago given up on the idea of writing a book about the extraordinary year Robin and I experienced together in 2003, since I couldn’t figure out how to tell the story without violating … Continue reading
As I have said, the experiences I had as Robin’s therapist in 2003 changed my life. I never expected Robin to have such a dramatic meltdown. I certainly never expected it to take a year for her psychiatrist and I … Continue reading
In August 2003, Robin’s life had completely hit rock bottom, from her perspective. In seven months she had gone from living in her own apartment and working full-time at a job she felt good about, with co-workers who liked and … Continue reading
During the time Robin was experiencing the aftermath of her meltdown in 2003 I had been a psychologist for a little over ten years. I had been working at the same agency from the time I had begun my … Continue reading
I was baffled by what was happening with Robin. I couldn’t understand why she kept feeling so awful and thinking so irrationally. There was no clear explanation. It did not make sense that her depression had been resistant to so … Continue reading
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