About the Author

Trapped in the twisted world of a paranoid schizophrenic mother, I am shut away from the outside world. For me, there is no school. No classmates. No friendships with other children. Under my mother’s insane rules, I can’t even turn to family members for solace, and so, day after day, I live in panic and fear.

How can I survive such terrible treatment? In deep despair, I learn to retreat to the safety of my own mind. There I create a world of fantasy and I yearn for someone to take me away from my deranged mother. But there is no one.

Most people suffering such abuse would go out of their minds. What makes me different? How do I endure? What drives me to rise above my traumatic past?

In this compelling true story, I describe what living in isolation with a psychotic mother feels like to an innocent child. In telling how I broke free of the nightmare enslaving me, I reach out to give hope and comfort to other victims of abuse.