Surviving Mental Illness

Surviving Mental Illness, My Story is the kind of book that brings a message of hope for those who have friends and families with a mental illness. It encourages people that anyone can recover and start living again. It starts out to define what mental illness is, its mood disorders and treatments, and includes a variety of resources and agencies that can help those struggling with their mental illnesses.

Throughout this book, the author brings her own experiences with mental illness and how she achieved recovery by learning how to overcome the many challenges that she had to deal with in her life which kept testing her mental health again and again. Some of these challenges were the death of her two parents, struggling to find employment, building effective relationships, etc. Surviving Mental Illness helps breakthrough the fear and stigma of mental illness and shows the kind of stigmas the author had to face. It is too bad that not enough people are open to talk about it or write a book because of the stigma that is attached. This is why this book is so important to be read and heard not only for consumers who have a mental illness, but for those who lack the education and understanding as well.

Surviving Mental Illness, My Story has won two awards. It won a silver medal award for best nonfiction autobiography from Readers Favorite and came in first place and won the Life Journeys Award by Readers Views because it is so inspiring and is written directly from the heart.

Also available in hardback, $25.95, 978-1-4327-8490-4.