Deborah Hurley

Deborah Hurley Quick Facts

Deborah Hurley was born and raised on Eastern Long Island. During her twenties she began suffering with major depression. This life-threatening condition consumed her mind and body and nothing could have prepared her for the traumatic episodes that she was to encounter. Her disorder disturbed and baffled even the most respected doctors and left this loving mother in an impared state for over twenty years.

Because she had battled this all-consuming condition for so long, she learned how to restructure her life around it, make adjustments for it, find purposeful meaning because of it and become more accepting of the challanges that life threw at her.

Deborah combined her love for writing, intimate experience with depression and desire to offer hope to others who suffer and slowly pieced together a revealing and extremely unique book. She knew that the hope she could offer would be more explicate, more genuine and more indicative of what true depression feels like. Putting her pen to paper she began to write, gathering years upon years of moving agonizing words and painful poems.

In her mind she became someone with substance, someone with history and intangible riches. She transformed herself from a sufferer into a survivor and her poetry became treasures instead of just mere depressing memories. Fragments of Hope quickly turned into a heartfelt labor of love and the more she wrote the more her heart began to heal and her words began to flow.

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