Don't Let Anyone Know

Name: Dont Let Anyone Know
Price: $31.95 NZD
Author: Helen Cochran Coffey
ISBN: 9781469195629

A Story About Mental Illness - The World Viewed Only the Silhouette!

by Helen Cochran Coffey

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Softcover

$31.95

Hardcover

$47.95

E-Book

$5.95

Softcover

$31.95

Book Details

Language : English

Publication Date : 7/05/2012

Format : Softcover

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 239

ISBN : 9781469195629

Format : Hardcover

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 239

ISBN : 9781469195636

Format : E-Book

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 239

ISBN : 9781469195643

About the Book

Heather was a brilliant, beautiful, loving, and caring young mother and medical-pharmaceutical sales professional. She adored and was adored by her two daughters, Aubrey and Alyssa. On the outside she had it all. On the inside loomed a debilitating darkness! She was a victim of undiagnosed and untreated borderline personality disorder (BPD), and her life was controlled by the illness. Her story conveys the chaos that besieges the mental health care system today and the devastation and heartbreak the victims of mental illness and their families suffer.

About the Author

Helen Cochran Coffey recently moved to Portland, Oregon, with her husband and shares a home with her daughter, Elaina, and grandson, Landon. She grew up in Ada, Oklahoma, where she met and married Mitchael Dewayne Coffey. They raised three children, Heather, Elaina, and Doug, and now enjoy being grandparents to Landon, Aubrey, and Alyssa. She graduated from East Central State College in Ada, Oklahoma, completed a Masters in nutrition at Purdue University, and is a retired middle school teacher. After her daughter, Heather, was diagnosed with a mental illness, she became an advocate for individuals suffering with mental illness.

Customer Reviews

" This a must read for anyone who loves someone who is battling a mental illness. A detailed account of a mother's love for her daughter and the angst they endured as they fought not only the mental illness itself, but the broken health care system, doctors, insurance companies, employers and cultural stigma. Helen shares her family's tragedy with gut wrenching honesty. Years of fighting the disease and the broken system that ultimatly stole her daughter preparred her for the battle ahead. She has become a warrior for the rights of the mentally ill and those who love them. This book is not a book of platitudes and quick fixes. It is an honest analysis of the changes that can and must be made in our attitudes and treatment of those with mental illness. Helen offers direction and hope to those who still have a loved one to save. "

Rebecca easton
"After reading your book, I thought about it as a road map to hell and back. Life is not kind but filled with pain for many, some more than most. Your story about Heather is well written, and beautifully presented. I will continue to recommend others read the story.

I was very interested in the need for further help from the Insurance Industry, and advocate treating medical and mental problems with the same funding. Perhaps a copy should be provided to every Family Practice via a grant from the heavy handed Insurance giants. "

Jack Bolger
"This book was very helpful to our family as we dealt with the scary, maddening and heartbreaking circumstances of dealing with a young person obviously dealing with mental issues. Helen's story, told with honesty and courage, lets any reader know that we must not deal in secret with the difficult issues of mental illness...that in the public arena, we must insist on mental health having a central place in the entire concept of ""public health"" Heather took her own life. Other mentally ill people take the lives of others. Helen Coffey calls us all to be responsive to this cry for help. "

Gretchen Hatley
"Written from a mother?s perspective, Don?t Let Anyone Know offers a very personal and honest portrait of the effects of a disease that is often misunderstood and mistreated. Frustrated and bewildered by a system that is inadequate in detecting, diagnosing and treating mental illness, Helen Coffey tells her daughter?s own heartbreaking story with it?s struggles, challenges and heartbreaking consequences. Whether you have experienced mental illness up close or from a distance, you will gain a better perspective of the devastating and will gain new compassion and empathy after reading her account of Heather?s fight for a normal life. "

Carol Stith
Helen's courage to share this story of her Daughter can possibly help others with Mental Illness or anyone who encounters an individual that is hurting..

A book everyone can benefit from....

Eileen
Wow! What an incrediable book. Heart warming and beautifully written. Helen Coffey will touch thousands of people because of her courage to write this story.

Joe Mendez
" This a must read for anyone who loves someone who is battling a mental illness. A detailed account of a mother's love for her daughter and the angst they endured as they fought not only the mental illness itself, but the broken health care system, doctors, insurance companies, employers and cultural stigma. Helen shares her family's tragedy with gut wrenching honesty. Years of fighting the disease and the broken system that ultimatly stole her daughter preparred her for the battle ahead. She has become a warrior for the rights of the mentally ill and those who love them. This book is not a book of platitudes and quick fixes. It is an honest analysis of the changes that can and must be made in our attitudes and treatment of those with mental illness. Helen offers direction and hope to those who still have a loved one to save. "

Rebecca easton
"After reading your book, I thought about it as a road map to hell and back. Life is not kind but filled with pain for many, some more than most. Your story about Heather is well written, and beautifully presented. I will continue to recommend others read the story.

I was very interested in the need for further help from the Insurance Industry, and advocate treating medical and mental problems with the same funding. Perhaps a copy should be provided to every Family Practice via a grant from the heavy handed Insurance giants. "

Jack Bolger
"This book was very helpful to our family as we dealt with the scary, maddening and heartbreaking circumstances of dealing with a young person obviously dealing with mental issues. Helen's story, told with honesty and courage, lets any reader know that we must not deal in secret with the difficult issues of mental illness...that in the public arena, we must insist on mental health having a central place in the entire concept of ""public health"" Heather took her own life. Other mentally ill people take the lives of others. Helen Coffey calls us all to be responsive to this cry for help."

Gretchen Hatley
"Written from a mother?s perspective, Don?t Let Anyone Know offers a very personal and honest portrait of the effects of a disease that is often misunderstood and mistreated. Frustrated and bewildered by a system that is inadequate in detecting, diagnosing and treating mental illness, Helen Coffey tells her daughter?s own heartbreaking story with it?s struggles, challenges and heartbreaking consequences. Whether you have experienced mental illness up close or from a distance, you will gain a better perspective of the devastating and will gain new compassion and empathy after reading her account of Heather?s fight for a normal life. "

Carol Stith
Helen's courage to share this story of her Daughter can possibly help others with Mental Illness or anyone who encounters an individual that is hurting..

A book everyone can benefit from....

Eileen
Wow! What an incrediable book. Heart warming and beautifully written. Helen Coffey will touch thousands of people because of her courage to write this story.

Joe Mendez
"After reading your book, I thought about it as a road map to hell and back. Life is not kind but filled with pain for many, some more than most. Your story about Heather is well written, and beautifully presented. I will continue to recommend others read the story.

I was very interested in the need for further help from the Insurance Industry, and advocate treating medical and mental problems with the same funding. Perhaps a copy should be provided to every Family Practice via a grant from the heavy handed Insurance giants. "

Jack Bolger
"This a must read for anyone who loves someone who is battling a mental illness. A detailed account of a mother's love for her daughter and the angst they endured as they fought not only the mental illness itself, but the broken health care system, doctors, insurance companies, employers and cultural stigma. Helen shares her family's tragedy with gut wrenching honesty. Years of fighting the disease and the broken system that ultimatly stole her daughter preparred her for the battle ahead. She has become a warrior for the rights of the mentally ill and those who love them. This book is not a book of platitudes and quick fixes. It is an honest analysis of the changes that can and must be made in our attitudes and treatment of those with mental illness. Helen offers direction and hope to those who still have a loved one to save. "

Rebecca easton
"This book was very helpful to our family as we dealt with the scary, maddening and heartbreaking circumstances of dealing with a young person obviously dealing with mental issues. Helen's story, told with honesty and courage, lets any reader know that we must not deal in secret with the difficult issues of mental illness...that in the public arena, we must insist on mental health having a central place in the entire concept of ""public health"" Heather took her own life. Other mentally ill people take the lives of others. Helen Coffey calls us all to be responsive to this cry for help. "

Gretchen Hatley
"Written from a mother?s perspective, Don?t Let Anyone Know offers a very personal and honest portrait of the effects of a disease that is often misunderstood and mistreated. Frustrated and bewildered by a system that is inadequate in detecting, diagnosing and treating mental illness, Helen Coffey tells her daughter?s own heartbreaking story with it?s struggles, challenges and heartbreaking consequences. Whether you have experienced mental illness up close or from a distance, you will gain a better perspective of the devastating and will gain new compassion and empathy after reading her account of Heather?s fight for a normal life.

"

Carol Stith
Helen's courage to share this story of her Daughter can possibly help others with Mental Illness or anyone who encounters an individual that is hurting..

A book everyone can benefit from....

Eileen
Wow! What an incrediable book. Heart warming and beautifully written. Helen Coffey will touch thousands of people because of her courage to write this story.

Joe Mendez

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