Do you consistently find yourself in unrewarding relationships?

Do you feel that you are often taken advantage of by others?

Do you feel tired and exhausted for other than physical reasons?

If so, you may be a victim of emotional bankruptcy, a phenomenon examined in the book “Emotional Bankruptcy: The Economics of Being Too Nice.”

Former Nesquehoning resident Dr. Lucille C. Gambardella has published the book, which is available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble online in paperback and e-book formats.

Gambardella is a retired college administrator/nursing professor and also had a private therapy practice for many years and treated women with a unique form of depression she called emotional bankruptcy.

The book shares how she helped her clients return to more productive relationships that maintained emotional solvency and prevented feelings of uselessness and inability to maintain reciprocal relationships in all phases of their lives.

Lucille is a daughter of the late Frank and Lucia Cerchiaro and a 1963 graduate of Nesquehoning High School.

She is also working on a second book based on her father’s coming to America from Italy and his influence on her life, to be published in 2021.

Lucille lives in Lewes, Delaware, with her husband, Bob, and two daughters, Gina and Andrea.