Can a World in Fiction Change a World in Reality?

Online, July 30, 2013 (Newswire.com) - The new book, LETTERS FROM THE LOONEY BIN, takes the reader on an inside journey of asylum patient characters on a personal, human level. Although the stories are fictional, there is the human spirit the author feels is real.

After working more than 6 years at the Butte County Behavioral Health Department, Thatcher C. Nalley had seen the inside world of mental illness.

"I worked in a mental illness crisis unit. This is where they would come when getting to the point of wanting to hurt themselves or others, because their mental illness had become unstable. We saw a range of depression to schizophrenia, but the diagnosis doesn't matter. What matters is that these were individual people, not a diagnosis."

Thatcher also worked as a Educator at a Rape Crisis Agency as well as for a Child Abuse Prevention program.

A common theme with the characters in her book is the impact of childhood on adulthood. That is one of the light bulbs she hopes to convey to readers.

"There are a lot of different dynamics behind behaviors that we don't understand," Thatcher says.. "For when a child's brain and body do not develop in a healthy manner, as well as not socially developing its results in adult behavior that may deemed not normal. All because at one point there were these parents who did some type of abuse, because of some type of abuse they had. It's a vicious cycle.
"From my experience and passion about child abuse, and wanting people to understand what happens when they become adults, I think this book was just meant to be."
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Set in the 1970's, LETTERS FROM THE LOONEY BIN, is a collection of letters from 12 different patients of the Emerson Rose Asylum. Each letter tells of the patient's childhood and how they came to be a patient. Ultimately, these letters unveil who each patient truly is at heart.

Although this is a fictional piece, Thatcher hopes it can aid in creating a new generation in the understanding and acceptance of those not only with mental illness, but of all those we may not understand.

"We get so caught up in our head with thoughts of why we don't like that person, instead of looking at why we should like that person."

"Fear is the core of negative thoughts. Getting to that core and then away from it can be very empowering."

LETTERS FROM THE LOONEY BIN was released on June 12, 2013 and is available for purchase as an e-book on Amazon Kindle. The book will be available in paperback on Amazon as of July 26, 2013

For more information please visit www.THATCHERCNALLEY.com