IRB Media Summary of Marya Hornbacher's Madness

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I have to get dressed. I take out a jumper and a white shirt, and from the dresser I get white socks and white underwear and a white undershirt, and I get my favorite saddle shoes. I suit up completely. I must be very quiet or my parents will hear.#2 I would pace up and down the hall, getting more and more anxious until I wiggled free and began to run around the house. I would eventually collapse on the bathroom floor, sobbing, beating my fists against the ground.#3 I am always feeling numb. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. I am inside my skull. It is a little cave, and I curl up inside it. Below it, my body hovers, unattached. I have that feeling of falling, and I imagine my soul is being pulled upward.#4 I had spells where I would become detached from reality. I would have visions of the goatman, with his horrible hooves. He came to kill me every night, but I never told anyone about it because I was afraid they would send me away.