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Overcoming Shyness And Loving Lynn: A Memoir

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About Bruce Whealton

Books ( My Amazon Author Page)
Tell Me I’m Not Invisible Audiobook
Three Times a Victim Audiobook
Support Group - Social Anxiety, Complex-PTSD, Loneliness, and Narcissistic Abuse
Justice Campaign
My Substack - Videos, stories, updates, and insights

Books by Bruce Whealton

Title: Tell Me I Am Not Invisible: A Story of Social Anxiety, Attachment, and Complex-PTSD
Title: A Diary with an AI on Mental Health Matters
Title: Puncture Wounds II - More Nightmares
Title: Memoirs of A Healer/Clinical Social Worker: Autobiography of Bruce Whealton
Title: Three Times A Victim: Living Under the Shadow of Toxic Shame
Title: What Really Matters: Poems about Love, Loss & Trauma
Title: Poems from the Invisible People
Title: Echoes of the Psyche
Title: The Labyrinth of the Mind

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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Beginning of Becoming Seen
Section One: The Past and Early Years of My Life
Chapter 1: From a Shy Little Boy to an invisible person
Chapter 2: A New Life Awaits - Going Off to College
Chapter 3: Boy Meets Girl (A cliché)
Chapter 4: Learning Social Skills and How to Deal with Shyness
Section Two: First Love
Chapter 5: Meeting Celta
Chapter 6: First Love: The Relationship With Celta - The first few months
Chapter 7: Alcohol, Anorexia, and Love
Chapter 8: Love's Salvation
Chapter 9: After Celta: From Tragic Loss to hope and escape
Section Three: A Love Story: Making A Connection
Chapter 10: Moving to Wilmington: My Adult Life Takes Off
Chapter 11: Meeting Lynn
Chapter 12: The First Year With Lynn
Chapter 13: Greater Intimacy and the First Year with Lynn Part II
Chapter 14: Relationship Formalities - Lynn and I Are More than Just Friends
Chapter 15: Reflections on The Connection We Had That First Year
Chapter 16: A Life with Lynn At the Center
Section Four: A Life With Lynn
Chapter 17: Lynn and Bruce Get Engaged
Chapter 18: Family Life with Lynn: The Impact of Cystic Fibrosis
Chapter 19: Sexual Intimacy and Health Issues Related To Cystic Fibrosis
Chapter 20: Intimate Family Life and Self Discovery
Chapter 21: Word Salad Poetry Magazine - A Shared Project
Chapter 22: Living as Husband And Wife without Marriage But With Cystic Fibrosis
Chapter 23: My Other Family and Sexual Discovery With Lynn
Section Five: Being a Therapist - A Backdrop to my life with Lynn
Chapter 24: Graduation And Being A Therapist
Chapter 25: Career Success! Building A Psychotherapy Private Practice
Chapter 26: The Joys of Family Life - Support and Success
Chapter 27: More About the Joys of Extended Family Life
Chapter 28: Preparing an Office for Providing Therapy, aka Treatment
Chapter 29: When Two Become One Body - Love, Beauty & Serenity
Section Six: A Living Nightmare: Losing Lynn And Feeling Dead
Chapter 30: Trauma & Cruelty of Cystic Fibrosis and My Connection to The World
Chapter 31: The Fog - The Nightmare Continues
Chapter 32: Threats to My Career - The Impact It Would Have on Lynn
Chapter 33: Lynn Leaves The Hospital: The Cystic Fibrosis Nightmare Continues
Chapter 34: Lynn Might Not Come Back To Me! Cystic Fibrosis And Death
Chapter 35: The End Of Life As I Had Known It - More About Cystic Fibrosis
Chapter 36: My Final Days in Wilmington - Reflections upon What Happened
Chapter 37: Honoring Lynn - A Letter to Her Mother
Chapter 38: Remembering My Dear Friend Thomas Childs and Seeing Lynn Again
Chapter 39: More Thoughts About Lynn & The Conclusion

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Blood-Covered Victim Called 911, Taken Away in Handcuffs: How a Gentle Therapist Became a Convicted Felon After Being Attacked

On October 1, 2004, I called 911 after being violently attacked in my own home. Despite my bleeding wounds and witnesses who saw my attacker leave unharmed, I was arrested while she went free. The truth about who I was—a compassionate healer dedicated to helping others—was erased overnight, replaced by a false label of "violent offender." This wasn't my choice. It was forced upon me. Now, I'm reclaiming my truth and identity.

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