How author Carina McEvoy acquired new strength from adversity
SHE was not yet 17 when it started. What began as a brief but inexplicable cloudburst of tears on the way to school developed into a dangerous addiction to self-inflicted pain in which she cut and slashed her skin, burned her arms with cigarette butts, threw herself down the stairs, and hit herself with the poker.
Now a novelist, schoolteacher, successful blogger, and happily married mother of two little girls, Anna, 7, and Ellie, 4, Carina McEvoy spent years systematically battling the depression, anxiety, social phobia and obsessive compulsive disorder which overshadowed her life since her late teens.
