A brilliant physician's life spirals into chaos as her relentless pursuit of revenge consumes her. Dr. Neighbors' quest for justice leads her down a dark path, where addiction and paranoia twist her reality and threaten to shatter her world. TOO MUCH is the gripping true story of a woman driven to the brink, sacrificing everything-love, loyalty, and her own sanity-in the name of retribution. It's a story that will haunt you long after the last page, a story that asks: How much is too much ...
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A brilliant physician's life spirals into chaos as her relentless pursuit of revenge consumes her. Dr. Neighbors' quest for justice leads her down a dark path, where addiction and paranoia twist her reality and threaten to shatter her world. TOO MUCH is the gripping true story of a woman driven to the brink, sacrificing everything-love, loyalty, and her own sanity-in the name of retribution. It's a story that will haunt you long after the last page, a story that asks: How much is too much?
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Too Muchââ?¬Â? by Cindy Lee Neighbors is a memoir about a womanââ?¬â?¢s dreams of being a doctor becoming stillborn because of her progressive drug dysfunction. Beautiful and talented, she graduates from USC, aspiring to be an actress but when that ambition falters, she joins the Army for ââ?¬Å"freeââ?¬Â? medical school. Then problems crop up and begin to accumulate, made worse by bad choices trying to fix issues, which slows her progress until she falls behind her peers. Her friends advance toward becoming practicing doctors while she is held back by remediation protocols, probation, and suspensions, languishing for five years in the medical residency program.
The story opens on a Hawaiian beach, ââ?¬Å"a better place than jail or a psycho wardââ?¬Â? she tells herself as she awaits her fate at the hands of the Armyââ?¬â?¢s judicial system. On extended medical leave, she spends her days hiking the beach and at her computer during manic periods, sending emails and writing. She seriously considers suicide, but her medical knowledge of possible outcomes dissuades her. In a book replete with negatives, one positive stands out: a commander tells her to drop efforts to write a novel and instead ââ?¬Å"tell your story.ââ?¬Â? She has become a whistleblower and should tell about it.
This book is the result. But how did she get this way? When family crises erupt, the author uses flashbacks to fill in the backstory about drug use as a teenager. This began a pattern for every difficulty of life, becoming a familiar crutch, mixed with toxic behavior such as exercising her charms to manipulate men, ââ?¬Å"a special forteââ?¬Â? she used to get what she wanted.
Immersive writing describing bouts of paranoia and psychosis may give readers suspicions theyââ?¬â?¢re in the hands of an unreliable narrator but in truth, Neighbors is unstintingly true to her lived experience, depicting her descent into the darkest regions of the human soul. Some passages appear as if in a fog, voices from friends trying to reach her, help her, inform her. After reading ââ?¬Å"Too Muchââ?¬Â? itââ?¬â?¢s easy to question how a person with such dysfunction could write a book because sheââ?¬â?¢s a basket of contradictions and her life is marked with excess.
Maybe I was too crazy to be a doctor. Too stupid to ignore the truth. Too smart to ignore it. Too psychotic to stop thinking. Too beautiful to fade away.
She was ââ?¬Å"too much.ââ?¬Â? That was her problem. But how did she change? She entered an outpatient therapy program where she succeeded ââ?¬Å"with flying colors.ââ?¬Â? That was a start, a turning point in a long struggle. Then she becomes a whistleblower, channeling her manic episodes into changing the system. But writing this book is the final expiation.
Neighborsââ?¬â?¢ writing is stunningly personal and she handles the first-person point of view as a natural. Her memoir feels like Kerouacââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å"On the Roadââ?¬Â? although the travel here is through the authorââ?¬â?¢s mind, the claustrophobic existence of her daily life. Yet the journey is no less captivating. Neighbors has written a true expression of one person bound by mental illness and breaking free. ââ?¬Å"Too Muchââ?¬Â? grabs the reader in the opening pages and doesnââ?¬â?¢t turn loose until the very end. The book should be required reading for young people and if one never touches drugs as a result then Neighbors has been truly vindicated.
