Kirstin's Story: No Place to Stand [Paperback]

Jean Jardine Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 28, 2004

This book began as a therapeutic exercise for a mother who had recently lost her agoraphobic daughter to suicide. Years later, a visitor to her anxiety disorder information website asked her for material that would help in explaining his daughter's school phobia to her teacher. It was still happening... here was a child who was experiencing the same lack of understanding that had virtually crippled her own child's education in the nineteen eighties. Her father was searching the internet for help. Parents were still having to educate the very people who should have been among the first to recognise the problem; the people who should have access to programs that could potentially prevent it from escalating. She decided to finish telling her child's story. Perhaps it would help; make people aware of childhood anxiety disorders; let desperate parents know they are not alone...

Product Details

• Paperback: 122 pages
• Publisher: Global Book Publisher (January 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0973137630
• ISBN-13: 978-0973137637
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,672,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

After a long career as an advertising copywriter, developer/designer of business communications materials and researcher/editor/ghostwriter of a number of small press non-fiction books, Jean Jardine Miller is now concentrating on writing novels featuring Canadian families and the challenges they face in life. A consistently increasing audience is enjoying the first three, "Fate and Angus McGrath", "Daffodil Dancing" and The Family History" and she is currently at work on her fourth. This is, as yet untitled, and follows the lives of a young brother and sister brought to Canada from the East End of London as child immigrants in nineteenth century.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Mother's Love, February 1, 2005

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eliza gardiner (nanaimo, b.c.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kirstin's Story: No Place to Stand (Paperback)

Kristen's Story is a mother's tale of panic disorder and social phobia that eventually, after much frustration and dysfunction, lead to her dauther's death by suicide at 19 years of age.
A true story written from the heart, Kristen's Story is straightforward in its telling of how a young family coped with mis-diagnosis and, finally, diagnosis, of the disorder that resulted in Kristen being unable to handle life's basic tasks and experiences.
Young Kristen was an artist, a good friend, and a strong leader who sometimes couldn't manage her fear of new places and people - couldn't handle to the point that she would run away, or curl up in a ball and refuse to move until the fear left her. She became, during the course of her short life, increasingly afraid of school which finally resulted in her not being able to attend at all. Although Kristen was kind and intelligent, and sometimes able to take on big adventures and responsibilities, the panic would creep back unexpectedly and would overwhelm her reason and emotions - and even repeated visits to counselors, psychologists and residential programs couldn't save her from ending her own life.
Kristen's Story is poignant and full of passion, full of the love of a mother for her child, a love that could not cure the daughter's illness but that certainly helped to give her daughter as full and fair a life as possible.
An important book to read because of its definitive information about panic disorders and social phobias, information that is not always easy to find, Kristen's Story engages the reader's mind quickly and is easy to follow. A valuable read for those interested in how to manage anxiety and depression, Kristen's Story is a good reference that will touch your heart.
The book is available from from the publisher's website at http://www.designandcopy.ca/jardinemiller as well as online at amazon.ca and booksurge.ca

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, Well written., May 5, 2004

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Tim Pheil (Selah, Wa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kirstin's Story: No Place to Stand (Paperback)

If your looking for a book about being a parent to a teenage Panic/Anxiety sufferer, than would be good. Ms. Miller has a very strong voice. She discusses having to be an advocate for her daughter and the frustrations that went with that. At times her words are so concise that it feels like she had little empathy for her daughter. But this isn't her daughters story, but a parents story. I wish the book had gone past the ultimate ending of her daughters suicide. It is very well written.