A Bridge to the Mainland

I definitely wrote my heart out in this book “A Bridge to the Mainland.” Why the title? When I was taken as a “Case History Study” at Duke University Medical Center, In Durham, NC. I learned so much of how to discover the real me, and not live my life for others. I played a role until I was 36 years old.
After so many years, I couldn’t take it anymore and I saw I could escape my real life by taking the magic pills my secret doctor was prescribing. After a while, I became addicted to prescribed medication for three years. In some ways my magic pill worked where my ugly life didn’t bother me. I didn’t cry. I didn’t get angry. It was like I was someone else. No one knew, but after so many years, I became extremely depressed. When I found out I was addicted, because I couldn’t get my magic pills, I panicked. I called my doctor and he sent me to Duke.
When I went to Duke. After counseling and group therapy, I found me! That it was my life and I had a choice. Oh, what a happy day! I had to make changes and they were not going to be easy.
So many Doctors at Duke told me I needed to write a book and share it with other women in the same place as I was. Dr. D., told me to search for the Mainland and not keep going back to the Island.
I asked him where the Mainland was? He said that was for me to find out, and I did! It took courage, determination and faith to get there. It wasn’t easy, but it was well worth it. I literally ran away out of all the ugliness, and into the light, on the mainland.
I wrote this book 45 years ago when it was all fresh in my mind. I had no ending as things keep changing and it was not time to end the book. The original draft laid on the shelf for 47 years collecting dust. When the opioid crisis hit, I knew it was the time to get it off the shelf, dust it off, and finish it. I had something to add, in many aspects, I had to share what I learned to find me and realize it was my life. I could choose what I longed for I wanted freedom and to find out who I was. To learn about me and how to escape the life I was in. Living for others.
I wrote my book when I was 37, when I ran away into a new life and a new me. Now, I am 84 and I have a good ending. It is finished. It was originally published 3 years ago and has a five-star rating. I recently updated the book and had it republished. I hope you will read my book and see yourself in there, and realize you can do what I did, find your true self and find freedom.