Author Description

You’re Listening to My Voice is the story of how one psychiatrist, Dr. Fields, heals one patient, Tina May, through his expertise and his kindness. Through hypnosis, they uncover cathartic truths about Tina’s long struggle with bipolar disorder, truths that help Tina finally begin to truly heal. The story begins when Tina, a student at a prestigious women’s college in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is drugged and raped by two men. These events trigger her illness. Over the next two decades, Tina’s journey through the world of psychiatric hospitals and clinics is much more harmful than helpful. Eventually, in her work with Dr. Fields, Tina uncovers the memories of abuse and neglect that have been haunting her, and together, she and Dr. Fields navigate how these experiences affected her and how she can learn to understand them and move past them. Tina also regains memories how her family and friends have supported her throughout, and this reminds her that she is not alone in her fight. Author Christina May tells her story with clarity, honesty, and even humor, even when relating the most painful parts of her journey. The result is a book that will inspire others with mental illness to fight as Tina does: never giving up, and finding the way to a wonderfully productive and good life.