My Enemy, Myself is a personal journey through the recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder, depression and Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome. Told with a balance of poetry and prose, the author recalls her journey through chaos, realization, therapy, and recovery. Whether you have been through similar trauma in your life or know someone who has, My Enemy, Myself was written for the reader to identify with the emotions, thought patterns, and self-actualizations. Labeled as a "highly functioning borderline," the author was able to mask many of her symptoms and issues from those around her for decades. It is now her turn to do the unthinkable...tell all that happened to her.
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This review is from: My Enemy, Myself: Personal Journey through Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse & Borderline Personality Disorder (Paperback)
Meri Kennedy is a true inspiration to us all. The way she describes her childhood and all the trauma is phenomenal. She is a gifted writer. Each one of her poems was like an introduction to each chapter. Each chapter seemed to be a chapter of her life. Survivors need someone to turn to and this was a great book to turn to. I know many people will benefit from her book and become inspired themselves. I would encourage anyone to read this book.
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PHENOMENAL Book - It Should Be Made Into a Movie!,
This review is from: My Enemy, Myself: Personal Journey through Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse & Borderline Personality Disorder (Paperback)
This is an absolutely phenomenal book. It's as suspenseful as the best of novels on the one hand, and it includes the author's poetry on the other. It is also a crime story told from the victim's perspective, and from that angle it's heartbreaking. The author was sexually assaulted by her own older brother, as sadistic and manipulative a creature as any found in the annals of literature, for many, many years, starting before she even started kindergarten. How the author, Meri Kennedy, was able to emerge from all of this is a triumph, and it makes for great reading too! There is a universality to this story whether the reader has ever experienced abuse or not. I've heard it said that evil can only exist in the darkness whenever someone sheds a light on evil, it's illuminated and stopped in its tracks. The fact that Ms. Kennedy had the guts to shine a light on the evil that she was forced to endure in her own home, while the unpunished perpetrator is still alive, is nothing short of amazing. It reminds me of all the sayings about how lotus flowers only get the chance to bloom after rising above the mud. I highly recommend this incredible book.
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Meri Kennedy's Book is Great - Her Same Abuser Had Threatened Me Too,
By S. (Cranston, RI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Enemy, Myself: Personal Journey through Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse & Borderline Personality Disorder (Paperback)
I wanted to say just how relieved I was to read this book - if it is possible to be relieved by reading a book concerning the rape of a child - by Meri Kennedy. It was a relief to me, though, because at one time I knew one of Ms. Kennedy's abusers, and he threatened me, too - and later made up all kinds of mindless, ludicrous lies to try to cover himself and his hideous actions. The man is a rampaging sadist. It is with remarkable, stunning courage that Ms. Kennedy has sat down and written this book, and I applaud her efforts wholeheartedly. The more people can read and find out about the minds of the kinds of people like this decent, gutsy woman's abusers, the better. Thank you for writing this, Ms. Kennedy, and I wish all the very best to you.
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