The Help That Came Too Late: Another Look At Mental Illness In Violence
I have survived child and sexual abuse, abandonment, rejection and ostracism. I have been an outcast amongst loved ones and associates. And, for a short period of time in my youth, I was institutionalized for threatening to commit suicide because of the experiences I endured. I am well acquainted with the shadowy depths of the mind—anxiety, loneliness, depression and rage. In my despondency, pain evolved into anger, and then bitterness formed into hatred. On more than one occ