I Plead Alter Ego

Amanda Verrall

Oct 2024 · Troubador Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

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?

Ratings and reviews

Exciting, yet hard hitting tale of lives ups and downs of someone who suffers from mental health issues. An incite into how our mental health can spiral out of control with substituting one addiction for another. Looking forward to finding out about the next chapter of Claires life and hopefully she can get the help she deserves.

About the author

Amanda Verrall is a former British army soldier who served in the Royal Corps of Signals. She later studied Accounting & Finance at the University of Teesside, before embarking on a long and successful career in procurement. During the covid years, she gave up this career to become an oil rig worker. She is the mother of two grown up children and nanna to a bouncing bundle of joy.