This psychological mainstream novel written in the first person (diary novel style) is about how to deal
with fears. The novel is titled, Why We Never Give Up Our Need for a Perfect Mother: Trapped at Home by Anxiety & Panic? (ISBN: 0-595-43402-9). In the first chapter, thereader learns how the protagonist burned out of
post partum agoraphobia and panic disorder by stretching, walking in place, and nutritional changes. Research your individual issues from the protagonist's detailed experience.
The next few chapters grip the reader in the imagery of details within life-story turning points. The chapters focus on how fears within a marriage affect the marriage when a wife-battering first husband threatens the day before the female protagonist goes to the hospital to give birth to their first child with one-liners such as, "I'd like to put my fist through your navel for actually spending the month's grocery allowance on food."
Being single again means actually waking up in the morning alive, as the protagonist would put it in one of the one-liner sentences that focus on committment, keeping bread on the table and the family together--even when the ex-husband takes the children to a foreign country and removes all the money from the joint bank account. He sells all the property, pocketing any gains and returns to his native land with the children--leaving the wife penniless, homeless, and
housebound with agoraphobia.
The life story leading up to the panic disorder is explained in high detail and imagery regarding how a fear of leaving one's house coupled by genetic hyperinsulinism and metabolic syndrome of the protagonist along with sensitivity to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere take away many choices after college and also partly explains being house-bound, a nondriver, and city-bound by panic disorder and agoraphobia for many years between youth and the golden years of age-wise maturity.
The tome discusses how the world is divided between calm people with a long 5-HTT gene and anxious individuals with a short 5-HTT gene. People with a short 5-HTT gene live with constant electrical activity in their brain’s fear center. Here’s one life story chronicling the genetic basis of agoraphobia and panic disorder, one woman’s war against the fear of going outside. You may be predisposed to either anxiety or depression if you have a short 5-HTT gene.
Look up the article reporting a study that links depression to an overactive fear center in the brain titled, “Bound for Gloom and Doom,” Proceedings of the National Academy or Sciences, October 11, 2006. You can find this online at ScienceNOW Daily News. Online, check out ScienceNOW’s search engine at: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/search? searchtype=article&andorexacttitle=or&fulltext=bound+for+gloom+and+doom.
Your genes react to different foods, vitamins, and treatments. If you’re concerned about hormonal imbalances and genetic predisposition, such as a short 5-HTT gene, how your body metabolizes nutrients or what defects are in your autonomic nervous system, then discover genetic causes of vitamin over stimulation or under absorption.
This is a novel that incorporates vivid imagery from a compendium of real life experiences that happen to women who marry for love without checking to see whether they are susceptible to being trapped at home for decades on end.
In another one liner, it's all about the search for a perfect mother--in a husband and/or best friend to replace the family that isn't there for a woman seeking a loving husband who would be the perfect mother, but growing up under an abusive stone-faced father whose famous one-liner is "why weren't you born a boy?"
The story is about how the protagonist burned out agoraphobia and panic disorder with mild exercise such as walking and nutritional changes such as not eating simple sugars, refined carbohydrates, or too much salt. Research your individual issues taking inspiration from these detailed experiences.
Life story experiences also portray turning points, events, and social issues. Browse the book at the publisher’s Web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-43402-9.