Larissa is only 29 years old and very educated. She has a PhD in chemistry.
You will turn around on the street and smile at her, she is so pretty and good looking, but she is ill and probably carries many diseases at once: depression, borderline, eating disorders, she hurts herself.
For 31 days, in a daily minute log, she tells you what is going on in her, in a way that is often not even known to therapists and psychologists. This is volume 1, which contains Larissa's recordings for the first 13 days from 31.01. until 12.02. contains.
This live recorded, up-to-date minute log, in which experiences, feelings, what happened were still warm and detailed, made it easier for Larissa to understand herself and to get a better grip on her feelings and thus deal with them better. By agreeing to make this unique document public, the reader learns amazing things up close and personal. These are secret experiences that people with mental illness go through that they usually keep to themselves. The reader penetrates into some areas that normally nobody has access to. A unique opportunity to explore the psyche of a sick person.
The life of a mentally ill person has never been examined so deeply, so closely, so intensively. It's dramatic and it hurts. It takes away. Sometimes we laugh with Larissa, happy that things are going uphill, that she has made it, but then reality quickly returns when she is back on the ground and fighting the devil inside. You get mad and angry at her sometimes, but then you remember: she's just a victim. she is obsessed Obsessed with her destroyed childhood, the negative feelings and thoughts.
Between hope and doubt, between joy and sorrow, between love and hate. Everything happens in this woman, who is caught by and in her negative feelings and thoughts and is controlled by them. Sex plays an important role for her and also serves as therapy. In fact, he helps her get up again and again. She also uses men as sex toys, but mainly through intensive masturbation she gets to know and love her body. She describes her daily struggle and into the many sex acts without taboo and in great detail in her diary.
She's fine now, bad tomorrow, and then fine again. From one minute to the next, hope turns to resignation and bitterness, and then back to hope. The first volume ends in a deep crash and one can only hope that she finds the courage and strength to get up and continue in her fight for a better life.
Larissa's openness and her path give us very special and valuable tips, we see how and what she does to keep getting up and that can help us a lot in similar situations. That is why the book also has the character of a guide.
Through Larissa's meticulous descriptions of her daily routine, the readers learn for the first time what really happens inside people with mental disorders on a daily basis. Unembellished, without taboo, unabridged and in a way that no therapist or psychologist has ever experienced.
This book is intended to help relatives and those affected to deal better with these diseases and to better understand the sick person or themselves. This book is part of the new series "Stories that help, stories that heal" by indayi edition.
