Description

From Rape to Rebirth
By Christine Sheehan

ISBN: 9781847478061
Published: 2008
Pages: 83
Key Themes: rape, mental illness, mental health services and medication, Christianity, recovery

Description

Though for most of her life Christine had felt that she had not achieved anything of purpose, she now realizes that her life was a journey towards truth, the truth about humanity and herself and God.

Her story is in the form of a series of letters that she sent to enlighten influential people, at the end of her own journey towards enlightenment.

The letters will be helpful for mental health professionals and social workers and for teachers trying to understand children with problems. Her story will give hope and inspiration to sufferers and carers round the world, as her published article Drug induced Apathy did for a Brazilian mother with a schizophrenic teenage son.

About the Author

Christine was raped at the age of seven by a stranger and reborn in her fifties.

Eventually diagnosed with schizo affective disorder, she now finds herself intrinsically sane, with a firm understanding of what reality is to an objective mind, a subjective mind, Gods mind, and her own mind. She does not claim to know the whole of the Creators mind, only the part known to us by knowing Christ, the part which relates to humanity.

Christine was once tested by an eminent statistician, Dr Vaughan Williams, who told her that she had immense creative intelligence. Because of her high score, he asked if she had ever suffered from a mental illness. Christine did not realize then that she had a multiple personality and answered no.

Though for most of her life she had felt that she had not achieved anything of purpose, Christine now realizes that her life was a journey towards truth, the truth about humanity and herself and God.