The Heart Too Long Suppressed: A Chronicle of Mental Illness
Northeastern University Press, 2001, 244 pp.
As a child, Ms. Hebald had no allies once her father died, but even he, on his deathbed, “abused” her when she was five. Others from her mom to her baby-sitter to her lovers to her doctors made her feel that life is miserable. For instance, as a teen a psychiatrist acclaimed she was a sure shot suicide. A series of hospitals and a bunch of losers with psychiatrist degree provided Ms...