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The Kirkus Review Is In
Robin, Daniel and I have been anxiously awaiting the Kirkus review of our book. It arrived a couple of days ago. It can’t be excerpted or published in any form until after I give the go ahead for Kirkus to … Continue reading
Robin’s Story Continues…
Once Vocational Rehabilitation finally came through, they referred me to a program that provided employment seeking assistance. This program happened to be run by the agency where Sharon worked, and where I received treatment. They actually made it a … Continue reading
Posted in Ch 9 - Robin: Rebuilding My Life (Excerpts)
Tagged Anxiety, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Book writing, Depression, Disability, ECT, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Personality Disorder, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Publishing, Recovery, Stigma, Suicide, Writing
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Update to the Readers of Despair to Deliverance
Those of you who are still hanging in there with us and paying attention, will be happy to know I just (literally minutes ago) emailed the latest draft of our book off to five people to read and give feedback. … Continue reading
“That’s Why I Thought You Would Ditch Me.”
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
Robin Finally Lets Her People In
The inpatient unit where Robin was staying consisted of ten rooms with two beds per room, in a long hallway with a nurses’ station in the middle of the unit. The nurses’ station was a room enclosed in shatterproof glass … Continue reading
“Are You Going to Ditch Me Now?”
As a therapist to adult outpatients, often with significant and chronic symptoms, I did not make it a practice to visit clients in the hospital. I always wanted them to know I was not the only person who could … Continue reading
The Phone Call that Changed Everything
The story begins with a phone call one day from Robin. She and I had been working together in therapy for almost ten years at that point. She had almost never called me between sessions during that ten year period, … Continue reading