I have had depression my whole life. Some days it was uncontrollable. Other days it had no effect on my days. I have pulled myself out of the pits of hell in my own mind, and believe me when I say I would have much rather died. Everything in this book was what I was feeling in the moment—the hate, the pain, and the rebirth, becoming new and leaving the old ways there. Don’t get me wrong; when you read some of the poems, you might not understand what I was going through, but I promise I am better now. If my family is reading, I’m sorry if you feel like it was never enough or the way I wrote this makes you feel uneasy or less of a person. Understand, please, that it is not my intention. I was and am only trying to work out the things in my mind. And I can only hope two things: (1) to whoever ends up reading this, there is always a way to come out stronger than this mental illness, and (2) to my family, please understand none of this means I don’t love you or have hatred toward you; that is not true. I love you. Enough of that, right. You wanted to read inside someone’s mind. Let’s get started. Let’s take a walk through a young girl’s mind.
NO MORE GAMES. IT'S TIME FOR THE TRUTH. Neil Strauss made a name for himself advocating freedom, sex and opportunity as the author of The Game. Then he met the woman who forced him to question everything.
Now Derek wants the truth about what happened that night. He wants proof his little brother didn't deserve to die. For every lie Chris tells, he will lose a finger. But telling the truth is far more dangerous.
Originally published: New York, Arcade Pub.: The truth book: escaping a childhood of abuse among Jehovah's Witnesses: a memoir, 2005.
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