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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: NATHAN DANIELS
Author Bio:
Nathan Daniels is the author of, Surviving the Fourth Cycle, a new
non-fiction book about surviving abuse, overcoming suicide, and learning to live with mental illness.
Nathan grew up in Massachusetts, where he lived in fear and suffered abuse at the hands of his psychotic father and older sister. The only source of love in his life was his mother, who did her best to protect him from his ominous surroundings.
Frequently molested by his big sister, beginning when he was six years old, Nathan endured this dark secret for nearly a year. At the same time, he did his best to hide from the verbal emasculation and looming threat of violence that his father had to offer.
Nathan's parents eventually divorced, and he moved across the country to live in Texas. There he would face social isolation, living with his mother, grandmother, and a new step dad.
He did not attend school for a full year, and had no peers in the dusty, forgotten trailer park where they lived for a year.
Next came Maine, where he did enroll in school and tried to fit in with kids who hadn't had sexual relationships with their sisters, or been in bar fights (at eight years old) for their drunken daddy's amusement.
It was here that his mom discovered she had Breast Cancer, and he learned his best friend was going to die.
They moved back to Texas again, and the Nathan continued his downward spiral into madness during another long year of seclusion. He began "cutting" himself on a regular basis, and he developed chronic PTSD and severe insomnia.
After another year the family relocated again, moving back to Massachusetts where Nathan began losing touch with reality, while his mother's health deteriorated. She died within a year, and when Nathan tried to reach out to his estranged father, he found out he'd died as well.
At seventeen, Nathan Daniels found himself orphaned, homeless, and at the brink of madness.
He overcame his desperate situation, doing his best to adjust to the world around him, going back and forth between periods of high functionality and intense bouts of insanity for the next twenty years of his life.
He has managed to achieve success as a warehouse manager, and has worked as a Kung-Fu teacher and tattoo artist. An avid bodybuilder and fan of wrestling, Nathan was a semi-finalist in the WWF's first season of, Tough Enough. He's also a licensed truck driver and nationally certified personal trainer.
Nathan Daniels has been diagnosed with: Borderline Personality Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Agoraphobia, Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and he suffers panic attacks, insomnia, hallucinations, self-mutilation, and suicidal tendencies.
Nathan lives with these psychological disorders, and against all odds, he survived a lifetime of trauma.
With a family of his own now, he had to unlock the mysteries of his mind to prevent himself from succumbing to the call of the grave.
He now uses writing to raise awareness for, and fight the stigma associated with abuse, suicide, and mental illness.
Book Description:
Surviving the Fourth Cycle
After a turbulent childhood filled with traumatic events, including the death of his parents, Nathan Daniels downward spiral brought him into hopeless despair and thoughts of suicide.
Orphaned and homeless, he miraculously clawed his way out of the bottom of the barrel and lived a relatively normal life for nearly five years before he felt himself starting to slip into a familiar darkness.
A cycle had begun that would continue to repeat itself throughout his life with ever-growing intensity and threats.
Surviving the Fourth Cycle swings pendulously back and forth between two stories that ultimately bleed into one.
You will experience the author's most recent battle with mental illness through raw and honest journal entries that give you a rare "fly on the wall" perspective from a truly haunted mind.
At the same time, Nathan rips his closet door off its hinges and lets all the skeletons come rattling out through a series of writings that are, in essence, the chapters of his life.
You are in for a bumpy ride as he picks through the bones in these extremely personal essays that examine the intense relationships and experiences that have led to both his struggle to function in society, and his ability to persevere.
Author links:
Main Website
http://survivingthefourthcycle.com/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/Nathan.danie...
Twitter
https://twitter.com/NathanDaniels75
Linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nathan-da...
Google+
https://plus.google.com/1051735556914...
Pinterest
http://pinterest.com/nathancdaniels/
Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPj35...
Goodreads
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Like or Follow Surviving the Fourth Cycle:
Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Surviv...
Google+ Page
https://plus.google.com/1124284034990...
Goodreads
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
To Purchase Surviving the Fourth Cycle:
From the publisher
http://booklocker.com/books/6455.html
From Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/SURVIVING-FOURT...
From Barnes & Nonble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/survi...
From Itunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/surv...
I understand the pain Nathan tells about in his book, and I highly recommend Surviving the Fourth Cycle. Like Nathan, I too, am a survivor of child abuse. To learn about my own struggles and my fight to survive, please visit my website.
http://sj2448.wix.com/suejulsen
