Category: Women Publisher: Abigail Collins
ISBN-10: B008HBCWKU
Pages: 145
Copyright: June 29, 2012
Abbie was a haunted and gaunt woman, imprisoned by a deadly mental illness, and disconnected from the world. It took Abbie more than a decade to recognise, understand and overcome anorexia and not without a lot of help – and hardship – from others. This is her story.
You’re my good news story is an honest, harrowing and gently humorous personal account of a young woman’s battle with the deadly mental illness and eating disorder, anorexia nervosa. Unlike other personal accounts of this topic, You’re my good news story is based on the pivotal role of other people – for better and for worse – in this young woman’s journey of recovery, from a guy in America who makes personal development tapes to her ignorant bully brother, her eccentric GP, her lawyer-cum-muso family friend and refreshing 5 year-old niece.
Abbie Collins is a young woman whose concerns with her body image start early in life, but which escalate after she leaves the safety net of college and moves on to university life. For the following 10 years – of which a part is spent obtaining doctoral qualifications - Abbie struggles in solitude with her illness, controlled by an inner voice which loathes and manipulates her. Beyond her Ph.D, and during a period of listening to the tapes of Mike Brescia, a voice inside Abbie begins to question the mental prison in which she’s been trapped all these years. Unable to ignore it any longer, the thoughts trigger a compelling series of events that take place over the following 3-4 years of Abbie’s life. Some of these events are heart-wrenching, some heart-warming, but all come back to the people who accompany Abbie along her road of recovery...>> Read More
Kimberly has gone from a well-paid female executive one minute to a desperate woman the next. Thinking her day can't possibly get any worse, she finds out how wrong she is when she goes home. The only way to set things straight is to get even.
