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About the Author Teresa became entangled in the mental health services shortly after she left secondary school when she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. To come to terms with her illness Teresa became involved in volunteering and in won a volunteer of the year award. Teresa suffers from acute asthma; it is thought that the steroids she has taken to combat her asthma lead to a toxic reaction which in turn lead to Teresa becoming psychotic and depressed.
With the support of health services she was able to get a job in a nursing home. Teresa hopes that by writing this book she will become an ambassador for people with mental health issues and hopes to dispel some of the myths and stigma surrounding these issues.
Description For Endings to End Beginnings Have to Begin was written to show how a person diagnosed with the dehabilitating mental illness. 51 quotes have been tagged as beginnings-and-endings: Kahlil Gibrán: 'When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of wha.
Book Extract Following the trauma of the previous two years with mum I found it very difficult to settle back into family life as well as starting a new school. Dad wasn't the person I remembered which was really difficult. I yearned for him to hug me but it never happened so I learnt not to expect it. My sister was doing things which always resulted in my getting the blame, and I was beginning to find life hard going with my stepmother.
Although I put a lot of effort in to my schoolwork I was very unhappy and felt like school was my respite from my increasingly strained home life.
After a while my unhappiness was picked up on at school and I was approached by one of my teachers. Unfortunately I couldn't really say much because I had been told that family problems were to stay within the family and not to go to 'outsiders'. The Thrive Global Community welcomes voices from many spheres.
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Book Extract Following the trauma of the previous two years with mum I found it very difficult to settle back into family life as well as starting a new school. The biscuits were counted and if one was missing without being accounted for it was my fault every time. About the Author Teresa became entangled in the mental health services shortly after she left secondary school when she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. After a while I began to harden off to the constant conflict with my parents albeit with difficulty especially because I found the concept of having to ask for everything very hard to accept. Do you want to lose weight, quit smoking, move on to another job? Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Those kind of endings paralyzes our world, and nothing in our lives seems to make sense.
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It is an amazingly honest and at times emotional autobiography, portraying how a young woman can overcome her 'untreatable' illness, allowing her to live a life that she had never dreamed possible.
Teresa wants to prove that just because she has a mental illness she is still a person with all the thoughts, feelings and needs that everyone as a human is entitled to. About the Author Teresa became entangled in the mental health services shortly after she left secondary school when she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
To come to terms with her illness Teresa became involved in volunteering and in won the volunteer of the year award.