- Approx. 3 years old
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Easter 1960
Almost 6 years old
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11 years, 6th grade:
Far right, wrist watch
Loved school and classwork
- 14-15 years: Student government president, tennis team
- 17-29 years: Withdrawal, depression, suicide attempt, beginnings of writing career. Joined a quasi-religious cult, suffered a psychotic break, complete mental breakdown with total devastation, hospitalizations
- 26 years old
- 30-40 years: 10 years of failures at employment and interpersonal relationships, nearly successful suicide attempt
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Photo by Twila Finkelstein
55 years: published author, public speaker
- 58 years: Legislative action, volunteer statistician, created educational materials for psychiatric department: patients, staff, and students
- Photo by Laura Frey Law, Ph.D
- Age 67
- Marcia A. Murphy, writer, mental health advocate, 2024 age 70