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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

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**Psychological novel based on the author's experience of schizophrenia.** A sixteen-year-old girl is committed to a mental hospital when she retreats into a disturbing fantasy world. This is the story of her journey back to sanity. **Chronicles the three-year battle …

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**Psychological novel based on the author's experience of schizophrenia.** A sixteen-year-old girl is committed to a mental hospital when she retreats into a disturbing fantasy world. This is the story of her journey back to sanity. **Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation,** emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which **to destroy that world of fantasy.**

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"**Psychological novel based on the author's experience of schizophrenia.** A sixteen-year-old girl is committed to a mental hospital when she retreats into a disturbing fantasy world. This is the story …"

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