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Hemligheters börda
Hemligheters börda handlar om de 10 dagar jag låg inne på Psykiatriska kliniken avdelningen 19 efter flera självmordsförsök. En självutlämnande bok om depressionens ok och ångestens bojor. Men också en pojkes uppväxtskildring om att växa upp i en familj med övergrepp, alkoholism och sorg.
229 pages, Paperback
Published August 20, 2015
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October 16, 2019
I don't know why I haven't put up a review of this yet, but here we go.
I read this both out of curiousity and for work to talk about on the radio. Because the writer is a local celebrity, you could say, in this little town.
Now you might ask yourself, why did it take me 6 months or so to read? Well, truth be told I picked it up in March. Read the first chapter then. And forgot about it. Then I picked it up again in August and finished it just in time so I could talk about it on the radio. So that's the reason for that!
J Åke Englund is a homosexual, and open about it and is also a supporter and talks a lot about how it is both to live as an homosexual man and also how it was to grow up homosexual.
And that is what this book is about! His sexuality and how he has struggled with it growing up, and also his family who looked so perfect on the surface, but was really really not. He says, at one point in the book, he wished they could have beaten him. Because then at least he would have marks. Instead we're talking mental abuse here. The mom falls down in a deep depression it seems like, after J Åke's father dies. After that, nothing is the same and he and his siblings are mentally abused. Which never really ends, and as an adult J Åke tries to take his life, which has him ending up in the hospital at psychiatric nursing.
It's not a happy book, but interesting. It really is. The young people today throws around words like "You're so gay!" "You damn faggot!" and stuff like that as insults, but never reflect on it how it effect others. Something J Åke talks about to in this book.
He works in the grocery store in the city centre, and every time I see him after reading this, I want to walk up to him and give him a great big hug.
I have done it yet. But I just might one day....
I read this both out of curiousity and for work to talk about on the radio. Because the writer is a local celebrity, you could say, in this little town.
Now you might ask yourself, why did it take me 6 months or so to read? Well, truth be told I picked it up in March. Read the first chapter then. And forgot about it. Then I picked it up again in August and finished it just in time so I could talk about it on the radio. So that's the reason for that!
J Åke Englund is a homosexual, and open about it and is also a supporter and talks a lot about how it is both to live as an homosexual man and also how it was to grow up homosexual.
And that is what this book is about! His sexuality and how he has struggled with it growing up, and also his family who looked so perfect on the surface, but was really really not. He says, at one point in the book, he wished they could have beaten him. Because then at least he would have marks. Instead we're talking mental abuse here. The mom falls down in a deep depression it seems like, after J Åke's father dies. After that, nothing is the same and he and his siblings are mentally abused. Which never really ends, and as an adult J Åke tries to take his life, which has him ending up in the hospital at psychiatric nursing.
It's not a happy book, but interesting. It really is. The young people today throws around words like "You're so gay!" "You damn faggot!" and stuff like that as insults, but never reflect on it how it effect others. Something J Åke talks about to in this book.
He works in the grocery store in the city centre, and every time I see him after reading this, I want to walk up to him and give him a great big hug.
I have done it yet. But I just might one day....
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