Surviving Mental Illness
This is the story of a woman who successfully deals with, and overcomes mental illness in herself. She does so from the perspective of the person who is suffering from it; the author herself! The author primarily delves into her family's history of mental illness, going as far back as he grandfather, who was tortured during WWII. She then deeply discusses how, while in the 5th grade, her own mother not only suffered a mental breakdown, but was suffering ...