"Recovering from a suicide attempt and escaping the darkness that can debilitate anyone is a reminder that nothing in this life is ever assured. Professional success and personal contentment were not enough to save me in the fall of 2015, when mental illness had me firmly in its grip."
Browne's recovery from fear of exposure prompted by the Ashley Madison data breach has unfolded in Bermuda and coincides with the reinvention of his career as an educator and the love of a wife who understands the possibility of redemption. Teaching history online overseas has led Browne to identify parallels between his own recovery and the need for a similar rescue of democracy in his home country during a time he describes as the Trump Enfeeblement. With the mind of a teacher and the eye of an erstwhile historian, Browne provides a recipe for surviving a time when overcoming a collapse requires an honest assessment of what has prompted the fall, true for his country and himself.