the Tender Years
The Tender Years QT Saunders ‘The Tender Years’ is my autobiography, a true and honest account of my life from birth to the present day. It takes in what for many, are taboo subjects: - childhood sexual abuse, self-harm in various measures, and psychiatric care today – as we leave the 20th Century. My own psychiatric care takes in the hub of ‘the System’, the receiving end of in-patient and out-patient or ‘client’ services – which is still much in need of improvement. I try to describe the many mistakes that may be made in this ‘hit and miss’ side of medicine. The book embraces a host of emotional feelings, captured in a format that adults should find inspirational to read. One of the key reasons for writing the book is that it hints of the physical as well as the emotional scars. Hopefully my later years will successively become less ‘tender’ from these. In offering a light at the end of the tunnel, if QT Saunders got through a tough life and is still standing – anyone can – and against all the odds. Electric Zen Buddha (as on Face Book)
The Tender Years
QT Saunders
‘The Tender Years’ is my autobiography, a true and honest account of my life from birth to the present day. It takes in what for many, are taboo subjects: - childhood sexual abuse, self-harm in various measures, and psychiatric care today – as we leave the 20th Century.
My own psychiatric care takes in the hub of ‘the System’, the receiving end of in-patient and out-patient or ‘client’ services – which is still much in need of improvement.
I try to describe the many mistakes that may be made in this ‘hit and miss’ side of medicine. The book embraces a host of emotional feelings, captured in a format that adults should find inspirational to read.
One of the key reasons for writing the book is that it hints of the physical as well as the emotional scars. Hopefully my later years will successively become less ‘tender’ from these.
In offering a light at the end of the tunnel, if QT Saunders got through a tough life and is still standing – anyone can – and against all the odds.
Electric Zen Buddha
(as on Face Book)
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Before shooing <strong>the</strong> grieving, confused family, mostly from a<br />
vigil apart from me, recovering from hospital yet again myself;<br />
out of her death bed room – actually murder scene!<br />
So more weird numerology, JK Rowling, by Planny Plotter here<br />
– or is it REALLY just as comical ‘Life of Simon’???<br />
Or is it as ALL numerology, my and my family’s weird story?<br />
For on <strong>the</strong> EVE of her 26 th BIRTHDAY ON 1 st July 1957,<br />
PRECISELY 26 weeks from <strong>the</strong> start AND <strong>the</strong> end of <strong>the</strong> year<br />
Mum and <strong>the</strong> family had me baptized…<br />
As her soon to become eldest son after first my bro<strong>the</strong>r Jeremy<br />
arrived to utterly torment me from day #1 (16 th January 1959<br />
– as carefully ‘family planned by Mum’ as a top ward manager,<br />
since my birth specializing in birth control for <strong>the</strong> entire<br />
Welwyn-Hatfield area – specializing in HELPING ALL THE POOR<br />
CATHOLIC FATHERS ‘BYPASS THE ANCIENT DECREPIT<br />
POPES’!!!; as her final offspring, my sister Libby or Elisabeth.<br />
She was born 22 nd February 1961 – a typical ‘Cusp of Pisces’<br />
type totally disorganized so domineering to compensate type!)<br />
My bro<strong>the</strong>r, who I have never really EVER even got to know at<br />
all, kept on ferocious abuse and torment in ‘very naughty a<br />
way indeed’ by systematically destroying all my beautiful<br />
creations in ‘lego’, ‘meccano’ and ‘plasticine’…<br />
I already showed incredible patience and forbearance (I think<br />
my bro<strong>the</strong>r actually TRAINED me in <strong>the</strong>se attributes by his<br />
appalling behavior. For I just doggedly rebuilt everything he<br />
kept on smashing up giggling, only striking him in eventual<br />
anger after about <strong>the</strong> fifth or even eighth act of utter<br />
destruction by Jeremy <strong>the</strong> wicked vandal of all my endless hard<br />
work rebuilding my wonderful masterpieces over and over<br />
again. So I was up against sheer jealousy from age two or<br />
even younger in my life…!!!)<br />
As a DEFINITE VIRGIN AT THE ALTAR (Dad was her only ever<br />
boyfriend – <strong>the</strong>y met while both school kids at DURSLEY<br />
Grammar school, Gloucestershire (JK Rowling!) and fell in love<br />
just after puberty!<br />
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