My Mental Madness Memoir

The Provocative True Journey through My Struggles with Mental Illness

By: Stephanie Anne Allen

Narrated by: Lorri Heneveld

This chilling, shocking, interesting, and intriguing true story takes you deep into the mind of the author who suffers from several severe mental illnesses.

The author describes in detail all the insanity, disturbing behaviors, oppressive symptoms, and various feeling associated with the mental battles within her own mind. The author suffers from clinical depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and borderline personality disorder. She struggles with suicidal thoughts and attempts, self-mutilating behaviors, mania, paranoia, anxiety, and psychosis with intense hallucinations of all five of her senses, and multiple delusions, including the belief that she is the "second-coming of Christ".

Take this journey with the author as her life takes rapid turns for the very worst.... But after years of being extremely mentally unstable, she acquires the courage, strength, hope, and faith she needs to understand, accept, and live with her illnesses. Only then is she able to turn her once miserable and fearful life around. This book offers hope and inspiration to others as it proves that recovery from mental illness is possible. "Having a mental illness is like a roller coaster ride. You don't jump off while it's still moving. You have to continue to ride until it comes to a complete stop and you can get off safely".

©2017 Stephanie Anne Allen (P)2017 Stephanie Anne Allen

Eye opening

Eye opening to her account of mental illness. Very good Read .... worth the buy definitely if you seek to understand the arena of mental illness

Excellent Book

This book has mirrored my life so much and in so many ways! I have a lot of the same issues that manifests differently but there are so many things that I can relate to! I'm a student of Psychology now and there are so many mistakes that have been made in the early days but now I believe that they're correcting a lot of it! I know that there is a lot further progress in this area but with people like Stephanie telling her story and getting people to understand the difficulties thi population has we will be well on our way!

Sad Reality of navigating mental illness

I liked the honesty of the author in looking back on the many obstacles to overcome throughout her life to finally live a life of hope and happiness. It’s truly a traumatic life of not knowing what will work for each individual medically, socially, emotionally etc. The life of so many losses and struggles.

me too

I related strongly to what she shared in this book. Like her, I wanted to become a doctor, but my depression had other ideas. She studied psychology in order to help others with mental illness and I studied addiction counseling. She was a case manager while I tried to work at an apartment building for people with mental illness. I cried myself out of the job. Yet, I still want to help others especially Christians with mental illness.

Brave and honest author

Thank you for being so open about such a sensitive topic and area of your life. The detailed description of your inner world, your feelings of its authenticity, and your devastating hopelessness painted such a vivid picture of this often misunderstood illness. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in knowing more about mental illnesses. Your realization that you’re not the cause of your illness is a blessing. Medications and therapy are necessary to control mental illness. It is sad that it took so long for your recovery. I received this audio book free with the promise of an honest review. This is what I have written, honest and heartfelt.