Kathryn Purcell

There's Something Wrong With Us: A Daughter's Story of Mental Illness, Loss and Healing Kathryn Purcell

Add an unloving, narcissistic mother, a sister exhibiting extremely reckless behavior with bi-polar disorder, a lack of self-esteem issues and you have There's Something Wrong With Us: A Daughter's Story of Mental Illness and Healing.

This book addresses emotional abuse by a mother who didn't show love, approval or empathy to her family and the emotional impact it had on all of us. It's not a downer as much as it is a story of survival and overcoming some long odds! With the help of many "Angels" in my path, this is a story of how I dealt with it.

This book is written like a novel including many historical facts about places described in and around Greenville, SC. There's also a fair amount of quirky southern characters and humor to go with it-like a hair-brained trip up the interstate with a donkey in the back seat of a Ford sedan, a 70's psychedelic home remodel and almost shooting a home invader who happened to be my mother-in-law!

This humor is not meant to minimize the serious nature of mental illness as much as it is to reveal how I coped with
it in my life. I primarily want to bring awareness to the impact of emotional abuse, which is as devastating as physical or sexual abuse--except the scars are on the inside instead of outside.