MENTAL ILLNESS MI Doesn’t Look Like ME

About the Book

This is a story of intimate warfare among rivals, where friend and foe confront the spiritual suffocation of a woman suffering from complex mental illnesses and disorders. She was desperate to be unchained from layers and layers of emotional tyranny believed to have inadvertently transpired either at birth, after multiple brain traumas, or even from the daily hustle and bustle of “having it all” (career, family, and affluence). Mental illness often emerges as a thief in the darkness, aiming to defeat the will to not only survive but also to live. She met a foe called GEMS, which became a deceitful friend but a trusted confidant. Her rejection by others led to an increasing reliance on GEMS, which she thought could save her from self-destruction but proved to be the awakening she so desperately ached for. The pilfering of her cerebral functioning was proof that a ghostly foothold had psychologically invaded her psyche, robbing her of mental and emotional health. Her mind was in a constant rage because of ravaging storms of depression, anxiety, memory loss, PTSD, panic disorder, and bipolar disorder. These ravaging emotional attackers even led her to contemplate suicide after becoming cerebrally unfit. After tumbling toward a fearful demise, she began decoding the mystery to her existence after five years of chaos. The author experienced a supernatural spiritual healing that caused her to be reborn in the flesh. This author’s story is inspiring and enriching, with a spellbinding journey that she hopes initiates inclusive dialogues with mental illness sufferers. This story will leave you speechless that this author is willing to share a plight so difficult to overcome. The author conveys that after sharing this story, she is not 100 percent cured, but she is surely 100 percent better. Everyone has a different normalcy, so the expectation from one to another is inequitable in measuring one’s curative healing.

About the Author

The author is a proud mom of three as well an adept wife and warrior who confronts mental illness face-to-face. During her five-year-long psychological encounter, she became captive to a powerful, demonic spirit that constantly battered her emotions. This mental imprisonment impeded her will to exit as well became an opposition for anyone to enter to offer a lifeline for survival. It was determined by medical diagnosis that her military service as a combat veteran contributed to her immeasurable successes over her twenty-two-year career but was also a major contributor to the demise of her mental and emotional health. Oftentimes, people like the author become subjected to inaccurate sentiments without insight regarding mental illness, all based upon unsubstantiated yet descriptive perceptions surrounding the disorder. The author is an accomplished military officer; an MBA graduate; and now an author. The phrase, “You don’t look sick” is the connotation that centralizes the theme of the book’s title, “MI Doesn’t Look Like ME.” No one can say for certain what mental illness looks like, but the author reveals it felt like during some of her darkest days. She depicts mental illness as a relentless, raging storm that never rests. The author recalls that the illness at times seemed to accompany foes with a premeditated intent to destroy her mind, body, and soul. She fought this life-suffocating sentence induced by mental illness while struggling to free her mind. After her mind was freed, her body became unshackled, unleashing fragmented chains and empowering her to write and share this story!