Anne Bergeron

In Whose Eyes? (eBook, ePUB)

Portrait of a Schizophrenic

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Produktbeschreibung

Anne Bergeron reenters college life in 1978, seven years after dropping out. She seeks an "honors degree in economics," and the academic pressure leads her into a nervous breakdown and paranoid schizophrenia.

She works with a young professor, and he plays with her mind for his own self-interest, knowing she has a misplaced "school girl crush" on him. She seeks out a college psychologist who completely misses her psychosis, but Anne miraculously manages to graduate with a BA degree in 1980.

Six months after graduation, she comes close to death after a self-imposed 38-day fast. Then, amazingly she gets up and travels cross-country on a bus to see her family, who commits her involuntarily to a mental hospital. This happens six more times over the years, and she always reconciles with her husband.

Anne writes straightforward accounts of her experiences, though of course many of the thoughts reflect her paranoia and schizophrenia. But she recounts the details with sharp insight, an enjoyable but tragic story that "ends" well. One percent of the U.S. population has schizophrenia, and most of them are gentle souls, in spite of people's misconceptions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759677500
• Artikelnr.: 56865465

Autorenporträt

Anne Bergeron is a paranoid schizophrenic. There was no history of that in her family, which made it more difficult to first diagnose. Her schizophrenia progressed gradually over time for multiple reasons including academic pressure and alcoholism. Anne grew up in a large Catholic family. She started writing in high school and was awarded a journalism scholarship. She wasn't serious and dropped out after three semesters.

She was married at age twenty-two, her husband graduated from college, and they moved to Washington, D.C. all in the same week. She was swept away by life in the nation's capital during the 1970s--Watergate, disco, money and the good times with their many new friends. She went on strike and became an alcoholic.

When returning to college in 1978, it was kind of an "Alice in Wonderland" story where she toppled into the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Unfortunately, she was by then always plagued by perfectionism and the stress that came with it. She lost her sanity in that endeavor.

She was involuntarily committed to mental hospitals six times over the years. She was voluntarily hospitalized the last time in 1989. She has her own family now and leads an optimistic life.