The Long Walk Home - 9781987936674

I spent ten days as a psychiatric inpatient during a mental health breakdown at age twenty one. I filled nearly 100 pages of a journal in the hospital with stories, rants, anecdotes and confessions about the chaotic road back to stability. I transcribed those journal entries into stories for two years following my departure from the hospital. Those stories now comprise this book. They recount Ward 2D as I experienced it, from admission to discharge. Home isn't a place--it's a feeling. I felt it in compassionate nurses after arguments with my doctor. I felt it in group therapy sessions and in admiring beech trees through tempered glass windows. I felt it in jigsaw puzzles and in lukewarm tea shared with copatients. I felt it more in Ward 2D than I had for years beforehand. We are all walking home. This is a travel log.

• | Author: Stephanie Traina
• | Publisher: Life Rattle Press
• | Publication Date: May 31, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 228 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1987936671
• | ISBN-13: 9781987936674