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Memoirs of A Healer/Clinical Social Worker: Autobiography of Bruce Whealton

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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

Copyright And Dedication Page
Acknowledgments And Recommendations
Preface
Introduction: Starting At The End & Suicidal Ideations
Section One: The Early Years, Immaturity & Shyness
Chapter 1: The Shy Boy
Chapter 2: Junior High and High School Years: Domestic Violence, Abuse
Chapter 3: Boy Doesn't Meet Girl
Chapter 4: Boy Meets Girl
Chapter 5: A New Life Awaits - University Life Begins
Chapter 6: Getting Through Georgia Tech with Bragging Rights
Chapter 7: Self-Discovery and Career Path Changes
Section Two: Self-Discovering and My Becoming
Chapter 8: Assaulted!
Chapter 9: Celta and First Love
Chapter 10: Love’s Salvation
Chapter 11: After Celta: From Tragic Loss to hope and escape.
Chapter 12: My Introduction to Psychiatric Social Work
Section Three: A Love Story: A Connection: The Role of Cystic Fibrosis
Chapter 13: Moving to Wilmington: My Adult Life Takes Off
Chapter 14: Meeting Lynn
Chapter 15: The First Year with Lynn - Part I
Chapter 16: Greater Intimacy and the First Year with Lynn Part II
Chapter 17: Relationship Formalities - Lynn and I Are More than "Just Friends"
Chapter 18: Reflections on The Connection We Had That First Year
Chapter 19: A Life with Lynn At the Center
Chapter 20: Lynn and Bruce Get Engaged
Chapter 21: Family Life with Lynn: The Impact of Cystic Fibrosis
Chapter 22: Sexual Intimacy and Health Issues Related to Cystic Fibrosis
Chapter 23: Intimate Family Life and Self Discovery
Chapter 24: Word Salad Poetry Magazine – A Shared Project
Section Four: My Career Journey: Toward Becoming a Psychotherapist
Chapter 25: Pursuit of Career Dreams – Psychiatric Social Work
Chapter 26: Working with People With Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 27: Working with People with Mental Illness
Chapter 28: First-Year Graduate Studies in the Social Work Department
Chapter 29: Second Year Graduate Studies – Direct Services
Chapter 30: Doing Therapy During My Internship
Chapter 31: Living as Husband And Wife without Marriage But With Cystic Fibrosis
Chapter 32: My Other Family and Sexual Discovery with Lynn
Section Five: Being a Therapist/Psychotherapist
Chapter 33: Graduation and Being a Therapist
Chapter 34: Empathy, Education, and Treatment Techniques
Chapter 35: My Own Therapy, Treatment, And Education
Chapter 36: Trauma Disorders, Client Rights, And Treatment
Section Six: Success, Accomplishments, Private Practice Psychotherapy Work
Chapter 37: Success! Building A Psychotherapy Private Practice
Chapter 38: The Joys of Family Life - Support and Success
Chapter 39: More About the Joys of Extended Family Life
Chapter 40: Preparing an Office for Providing Therapy
Chapter 41: Treatment - From Schizophrenia to Eating Disorders
Chapter 42: Understanding Trauma and Related Disorders & Treatment
Chapter 43: Learning About Trauma and Dissociation
Chapter 44: Identifying Dissociative Identity Disorder & Treatment
Chapter 45: Understanding Dissociation and Trance - How We Learn to Cope
Chapter 46: Treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder – A Success Story
Chapter 47: Bad Fraudulent Therapist Making People Sicker
Chapter 48: Conspiracy Theories, Satanic Ritual Abuse and Unusual Beliefs
Chapter 49: When Two Become One Body - Love, Beauty & Serenity
Chapter 50: Success in Life and In My Career as Therapist
Section Seven: A Living Nightmare: Losing Lynn And Feeling Dead
Chapter 51: Trauma & Cruelty of Cystic Fibrosis and My Connection to The World
Chapter 52: The Fog - The Nightmare Continues
Chapter 53: Threats to My Career - The Impact It Would Have on Lynn
Chapter 54: Lynn Leaves the Hospital: The Cystic Fibrosis Nightmare Continues
Chapter 55: Lynn Might Not Come Back to Me! Cystic Fibrosis and Death
Chapter 56: The End of Life as I Had Known It - More About Cystic Fibrosis
Chapter 57: My Final Days in Wilmington - Reflections on What Happened
Chapter 58: Honoring Lynn – A Letter to Her Mother
Section Eight: Life Without Lynn: Injustice, Poverty & Homelessness
Chapter 59: No Stable Home - Defending My Professional Performance
Chapter 60: On the Run: My Trauma and Treatment
Chapter 61: Some Other Unusual Experiences
Chapter 62: Living in A Drug Infested, Crime-Ridden Part of Durham
Chapter 63: Trauma and Victimization
Chapter 64: Interrogating the Victim - Profound Injustice
Chapter 65: Captivity and Injustice
Chapter 66: Crucified Despite Doing No Wrong - My Captivity
Chapter 67: Becoming Suicidal Before Healing
Chapter 68: Remembering My Dear Friend Thomas Childs
Chapter 69: More Thoughts About Lynn
Chapter 70: Moving on and 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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