Life and relationships are about perspective. A Soft Place to Fall is about the dramatic effect a delirious mania can have on perspective. It is written from two different perspectives.That of Prisiclla Diffie-Couch (PDC) who experienced such a mania and from the perspective of her husband who saw his wife and loving marriage drastically change for the worse during this event. This look inside the manic mind is a lesson in life to all but especially for those of you who say, “This could never happen to a well-adjusted, normal, healthy person like me.” It did happen to such a person. My mind transformed from that of a bright, ordinary person to that of a psychotic stranger forced to move out of an attractive upper-middle-class home into the locked ward of a mental hospital. This could happen to anyone. Step into this nightmare turned reality and discover what I could never have imagined might happen to me--a former teacher, university professor, public speaker and seminar leader. You will come to know how a psychotic event can affect an entire family. You will meet people inside a mental institution and witness the actual spiral away from what we call sanity--into a delirious, manic reality. (Priscilla Diffie-Couch-PDC) Some speculate that Robert Louis Stevenson subconsciously based his novel of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on a real life allegory of the time about the mentally ill that roamed the foggy streets of late 18th century London. It is known that his concept surfaced during a nightmare. Only in nightmare could a highly intelligent and caring doctor turn into a deviant. Stevenson wrote the book in three days while the fear and obsession of his nightmare remained with him. It is believable that he might have been in psychosis during those three days. If Mr. Stevenson were analyzed under today’s mental health guidelines, based on this single event he would be categorized bipolar. (Michael J. Couch-MJC)

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