My name is rose; I am french so I firstly
apologize for my english as you may find
some mistakes. Anyway I would like to
share with you my last discovered.
Do you know dorothy schwarz? She has
written a book in order not to see her
daughter forgotten after her suicide. She
was manic-depression. Her book is titled
behind a glass wall. It is an account of
the experiences of a young a beautiful
woman living with a mental illness such as
bipolar disorder.
This book is truly emotional and I think
without doubt that hearing these
people’s voices can help to stop the
humiliation mental health sufferers feel.
Break the taboo!
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rosene
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 3
Posted: 07-28-05 08:11am
I just wrote a quick summary of the book,
be pleased to read it and maybe it would
give you ideas.
She was beautiful, intelligent, vivacious
and charismatic, and she suffered from
manic depression. At the age of 27, after
five months of deep despair, zoë schwarz
threw herself under an express train.
Could her suicide have been avoided?
Would her family have acted differently if
they had known that one in five people
with this illness kill themselves?
Dorothy schwarz, zoë’s mother, reflects
on the death of her daughter.
“no one is to blame for my death”.
Zoë schwarz killed herself after a long
battle with mental illness, leaving a note
saying no one was to blame. In a moving
letter to her dead daughter, her mother
says there is no pain comparable to that
caused by suicide and asks if she could
have done anything to prevent it.
To family and friends and hicham (their
addresses are on a list pinned up over my
bed.)
no one is to blame for my death. I am
killing myself because the circumstances
of my life are unbearable.
I love you all; but I can’t live like
this. I am in too much pain and I am just
deteriorating.
I am sorry, please forgive me.
I used to work and see friends a lot; but
now I can do neither because I can’t
function nor communicate. I’ve been in
hell for 4 months and I can’t bear the
pain any more. Zoë.
That was the note, in perfectly legible
writing, found by the police, lying on the
front seat of her car, parked at marks tey
station in arttags" />suffolk on august
22, 2000.
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