02082cam a2200265 4500 1648608819 TxAuBib 20241008120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781939650290 1939650291 0024118927 Axis360 TxAuBib Sawyer, Annita Perez. Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass [Boundless]. Santa Fe Writers Project, 2015. Annita Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transfered, labeled as "unimproved." The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, raise two children, and become a respected psychotherapist. That is, until 2001, when she reviewed her hospital records and began to remember a broken childhood and the even more broken mental health system of the 1950s and 1960s, Revisiting scenes from her childhood and assembling the pieces of a lost puzzle, her autobiography is a cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, both 50 years ago and today. It is an informative story about understanding PTSD and making emotional sense of events that can lead a soul to darkness. Most of all, it's a story of perseverance: pain, acceptance, healing, hope, and success. Hers is a unique voice for this generation, shedding light on an often misunderstood illness. Format: Blio. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-07 21:15:28. Psychology Mental Health. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Women. https://marioncl.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0024118927 T3F