LOU - I found the book.
Out Of The Dark by Linda Caine and Robin Royston.
'One woman's harrowing journey to discover her past.
Life for Linda should hold no fears. As a contened wife and mother, he should haave everything to live for. Yet a blackness has started to leak into her thoughts. Images flash through her head leaving her stunned and breathless.
On the face of it, there is no rational explanation for the way she feels. Linda believes there is something malign inside her.
When it finally gets too much, she can always simply die. She satrts to plan how, it must look like an accident. Deliberate car crash, on her way home from doing the grocery shopping. After all who commits suicide with a load of groceries in their car?
The raw and powerful journey that Linda takes with her psychotherapist Robin royston to discover what lies at the heart of her depression will leave you shocked. the secrets in her African childhood and adolescence are buried so deep that to reveal them may destroy her completely. Nothing is what it seems, no-one is above suspicion. together Linda and Robin race to unravel the clues, before it is to late.
Out of the Dark is Linda's remarkable and uplifting story from the agonies of mental breakdown to the painful piecing together of the past that was vital for her survival. Both her courage and Robins persistence during that process show the pwer of the human spirit at its most indomitable and inspiring.
Linda Caine is a self-taught artist and calligrapher. Her work is in private collections in Africa, the Isle of Man, england and the United Staes of America.
Dr Robin Royston is a practising psychiatrist and psychotherapist who specialises in trauma-based problems stemming from childhood.
She says in the intro;
The writing of this book has been a remarkable story in its own right, and has taken me from America to England and Zimbabwe, and back again.
The staff at Ticehurst Hospital between 1989 - 1991. The staff at Chaucer Hospital between '89-'91.
Thanks to her christian friends.
She's 37 when 'it' starts.
They read a book '' Anxiety and depression''. The psychological symptoms. She re-reads ch 3; 'Self-help Ways of Overcoming Anxiety and Depressin. Ch4; When to go to the doctor, she says she can't face that one.
At this point the darkness has taken over. the it all starts to go downhill and unfold.
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Hope this helps some.
How would you feel about starting a new Post. about what it's like where you live there in Africa. I'd love for you to describe what it's like there. It's such a fascinating country.
If you would like a bit more info on this Linda's story, I don't mind typing it out here. It's a great book.
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