Making a Difference in the Real World Through a World of Fiction

Online, July 22, 2013 (Newswire.com) - The new book, LETTERS FROM THE LOONEY BIN, takes the reader on a personal and human journey of what goes on inside the minds of asylum patients. Although the stories are fictional, there is a human spirit that the author feels is real.

After working for more than six years at the Butte County Behavioral Health Department Thatcher C. Nalley has personally witnessed the inside world of mental illness.
Thatcher also worked as an educator at a Rape Crisis Center and as an educator for a Child Abuse Prevention Program.

A common theme with the characters in her book is the impact of childhood on adulthood. It is one of the "light bulbs" that Thatcher hopes to convey to her readers. "There are a lot of different dynamics that are behind behaviors that we don't understand." She says. "For when a child's brain and body do not develop in a socially healthy manner, it can result in adult behavior that may not be deemed as normal. Unfortunately, however, these social failures are generally the result of parents whose own abused childhood brain and body also failed to develop in a socially healthy manner. It's a vicious cycle."

Set in the 1970's, LETTERS FROM THE LOONEY BIN is a collection of letters from thirteen different patients of the Emerson Rose Asylum. Each letter tells of the patient's childhood experiences and how it is that they came to be a patient at the asylum. Although this is a fictional piece, Thatcher hopes it can aid in creating a new generation that will better understand and accept those we may not understand just because they are "different" from us. "We tend to get so caught up in why we don't that person instead of asking why we should like that person."

LETTERS FROM THE LOONEY BIN available as an e-book and paperback at Amazon Books.

For more information please visit www.thatchercnalley.com