Linda Newbery

Advantages: enlightening insight into mental illness
Disadvantages: not a light read,distressing at times

...This is a brave and frank insight into LInda Caine's darkest moments. In addition we are shown her deepest thoughts and those of her psychotherapist and practising psychiatrist who specialises in trauma based problems stemming from childhood. Linda introduces us to her life when she is happily married to the ever devoted husband Chris and has two wonderful young children, Gary and Christy. Linda is an artist and has a room in her family home dedicated to this. There are no obvious areas that "should" cause Linda to be anxious or depressed but totally out of the blue she finds she has difficulty breathing and struggling to cope with her day to day life. Linda benefits from having a strong faith in God and the Church which she shares with her equally devout husband. Linda feels she has something "evil" in her and she feels she... Read review

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Advantages: To learn about an African life, told with such imagination and colour
Disadvantages: To find out the extent to which an innocent young child can be abused

...OUT OF THE DARK This autobiography was so popular when it was first published in paper back format in 2004 that it stayed on the list of best sellers for most of that year. It has sold almost a quarter of a million books in the UK alone! Linda Caine was born in Zimbabwe, Africa and lived there for most of her childhood, before moving onto Los Angeles and then England. She was happily married with a wonderful husband and two lovely children, living in a big house with no financial worries, and yet Linda was increasingly becoming more depressed by the day. She had what many people would describe as the perfect life and yet there was something that she hadn’t a clue what it was that made her dreadfully unhappy. This prompted her to start seeing a psychotherapist to discuss her feelings and to see if they could discover what lied... Read review

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Advantages: a fantistic read and understanding of mental illnesses
Disadvantages: very disturbing and emotional

...This is a book by Linda Caine and her psychotherapist Robin Royston. It is an amazing book detailing Linda's life before the illness started affecting her and how it began affecting her and her family. The book starts with Linda's near perfect life, what more could she ask for, wonderful children, loving husband, everything she wanted, then the depression starts. She doesn't understand herself what is happening and why it is happening and the effect on her husband and children is traumatic. She explains how help is sought from Robin and how together they work through the evil that she feels is inside her and can't break free, unless she sleeps which is pretty frightening and changed my overall opinion of how dreams affect us and our lives. Linda even contemplated suicide and expressed severe self harming issues. I don't want to go... Read review

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