The Terror Disease - Softcover

Sullivan, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099862974X ISBN 13: 9780998629742

Publisher: ID Publishing House, 2018

Synopsis

Anyone who has experienced deep depression can identify with the raw dread and despair expressed in the terse but powerful lines of The Terror Disease. Helen Sullivan has adeptly captured the sheer anguish, loneliness, and disorientation of one who is in the grip of such desolation. Only her faith in God has kept her into her eighth decade and given her hope to carry on.

About this title

About the Author

Helen Sullivan was born to Irish immigrant parents, the oldest of four children. Home was a place where she was made to repress feelings and speech and where she was ridiculed for being a girl. Her mother was oblivious and felt women were inferior and should be accommodating to make the men comfortable.

Helen married and had three children. She had always fantasized that being a mother would fill the void she felt within, but that never happened. Her husband believed that mothers were inconsequential and children a nuisance. He abandoned the family after their third child was born, and Helen was hospitalized with extreme depression and chronic anxiety.

Reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down to the Bones emboldened her to put her experience into words. The Terror Disease is the result of exploring her roots and expressing herself in poetic form. It shows the raw terror and despair she has experienced, but prayers, faith, friends, and family have given her reason to go on.

Edition details

• Publisher: ID Publishing House
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099862974X
• ISBN 13: 9780998629742
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 28