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I Plead Alter Ego

By: Amanda Verrall
Narrated by: Amanda Verrall
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Clare is a successful but newly divorced woman who battles various mental health issues. These include sex addiction, alcoholism, OCD, an eating disorder and depression. She juggles her demanding career and life as a single parent, all the while trying to hide her increasingly uncontrollable behaviour, which manifests itself as an alter ego called Roxy.

At the dawn of a new digital age, Clare joins Facebook, a newly released social media website that has taken over from MySpace, where she connects and meets with a former flame. Following an emotionally sadomasochistic dalliance with this former lover, Clare then has a string of casual sex encounters with strangers. She has a growing drink problem that sees the alter ego Roxy take over the decision-making, often leading Clare into dangerous situations. Her growing dependency displays itself through obsessive-compulsive traits such as excessive cleaning, exercising and handwashing while, at night time, she has insomnia and often thinks about death.

Clare spirals out of control and falls into a deep depression, but can she hope to find a way out?

©2024 Amanda Verrall (P)2024 Amanda Verrall Mental Health Health Sleep Disorder

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A touching story of insecurity and mental anguish, self-medicated through addiction and promiscuity. Claire lives a life of suffering and uncertainty that juxtaposes the life of raw sex and indulgent fantasy of her alter-ego, Roxy.

There is plenty in this story that makes me reflect on my own hedonistic story. Those of us who lived our glory days in the 90s/00s will recognise the fantastic highs and desperate lows that accompanied the inevitable mental health struggles of a damaged past.

Roxy lives in us all!

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I thoroughly enjoyed this story, very deep but also very relatable and at times shocking. I found myself laughing at times too. There's something for everyone in this book and it's a story that will stay with you. An entertaining storyteller that I enjoyed listening to. I would highly recommend.

Great story, really well read

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