Escape Out the Window

Why do people take their own life? Every story is unique, but every loss leaves others behind in their grief. Becka's story is based on true events, a woman's struggle to recover from incest and childhood physical abuse by her father. Obesity compounds her recovery, as the excess fat had served as protection from intimacy. Becka believes escape by suicide is her best option when the therapist refuses to hypnotize her into forgetting everything that happened. The challenge for the therapist is how to prevent Becka's suicide after saving her from two attempts. The bond developing between the two women over several years is so intense that the therapist is in almost as much emotional pain as Becka. Escape Out the Window is both biography and auto-biography, told in alternating chapters by the victim and the therapist. Is emotional and psychological suffering anything less to bear than physical pain? The story may provide others with insight into the effects of abuse and what drives someone to take their own life, and in that, may give comfort or assuage guilt for some survivors.