Well if its a "real word" may depend on dialect, or where your from specifically. There are many words in Texas not really recognized as "real words" like "y'all" or many things like that. Perhaps it is a word somewhere. But I have never heard it. Remember, language is like a liquid, always shifting, and changing.
Dr. Lanyon has learned damaging new information about Dr. Jekyll. I know this because after Utterson asks if Lanyon has seen Dr Jekyll, his face changes and he says he never wants to see him again.
Answer:
"I really didn't believe I would make it through childhood, but the act of writing brought me through," she says
Explanation:
She started writing to get away from her troubles