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On the Border: A Collection of Essays
“Suffering is inevitable when you try to explore every option aside from suicide to keep from drowning in the ravaging tides of mental illness.”
There is a thin line between being mentally ill and mental health. Resting on that border is the impenetrable stigma of mental illness and the lack of access to healthy mental resources in specific areas of our society.
On the Border is a collection of essays that navigate the mental ills of a man, Robert A. Douglas, who grew up in poverty and escaped the struggles of such but not the psychological and emotional scars left to travel with him.
The duality he battles with—managing his professional career on the one hand and masking his disorder due to public perception on the other—is not uncommon for people seeking to escape impoverished conditions.
Douglas illuminates tough battles within his own life to speak to the more considerable implications of mental illness and the dire need to urgently address the lack of access to healing remedies for people living in lower class conditions.
There is a thin line between being mentally ill and mental health. Resting on that border is the impenetrable stigma of mental illness and the lack of access to healthy mental resources in specific areas of our society.
On the Border is a collection of essays that navigate the mental ills of a man, Robert A. Douglas, who grew up in poverty and escaped the struggles of such but not the psychological and emotional scars left to travel with him.
The duality he battles with—managing his professional career on the one hand and masking his disorder due to public perception on the other—is not uncommon for people seeking to escape impoverished conditions.
Douglas illuminates tough battles within his own life to speak to the more considerable implications of mental illness and the dire need to urgently address the lack of access to healing remedies for people living in lower class conditions.
100 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 1, 2018
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April 5, 2023
Wow.
I can relate to a lot of what was said in this collection of essays. I will say, it made me want to teach and fight for my people. Robert, you are an amazing person, thank you.
P.s. I cried a litte. Don't judge me, ha!
I can relate to a lot of what was said in this collection of essays. I will say, it made me want to teach and fight for my people. Robert, you are an amazing person, thank you.
P.s. I cried a litte. Don't judge me, ha!
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