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Broken Mind, Persistent Hope
A promising young student is cut down by manic depression. Soon after, his car is T-boned by a tractor trailer in a snowy highway collision, making his existing instability many times worse. His marriage with a Russian wife comes under unbearable strain. How he emerges from all this to return to normal life is the exciting story of Broken Mind, Persistent Hope .
336 pages, Paperback
First published May 6, 2014
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January 18, 2019I met the author through a community event. The book is edgy and raw. Gives you a better understanding of what life is like with a mental health problem and a brain injury.
March 8, 2016
Imagine you are a young, intelligent and ambitious man. You are building grandiose plans about your academic career, you have a happy marriage with a young and talented girl, you are respected and considered by others. But one day, something happens - a car accident and brain injury - that changes your life beyond recognition. All your plans crumble. Nothing is as it used to be any more. To your great despair, you realize that you no longer hold control over your mind. You, a once brilliant student, are no longer able to even read a book. You are acting strange, not like before. There appear the first cracks in your marriage. People around you begin to treat you like a madman.
You turn to professionals only to find cold indifference and lack of real willingness to help you and hear you. Who cares what a crazy man thinks and feels? They just prefer to lock you up in a ward and stuff you with pills to keep you calm.
Suddenly your life collapses into a dark abyss, where you find yourself alone, cold and scared. No one understands you, no one can hear your cries for help. Who will stay by your side? Who can you really rely on? Who really loves you so much as not to abandon you at this dark hour?
And the most important question - what would you do if everybody around you, even the so-called experts, tried to assure you that there is no way out? That from now on your life would be just this - a sheer hell and madness, that there is no way back? Would you just throw in the towel and resign yourself or would you rather say: "I won't give up! I'll find a way out! I will have my old normal life back! I want to live! I still exist! I'm still able to think and suffer! I am not just some vegetable! I want to live and feel happy and loved!"
This is exactly what the main character of this amazing book tries to accomplish - to find his way out of the dark abyss of madness. On his way, he will demonstrate incredible will power, love for life, faith in himself and in the possibility of a better future and happiness for himself. This book will be of interest both to professionals in the field of mental health who, surely, will be able to draw a lot of useful information from it, as well as to general readers, who will learn from it to never give up, be strong, believe in themselves and fight for their own happiness, no matter what kind of difficulties life might put before them. This is a book that really gives hope.
You turn to professionals only to find cold indifference and lack of real willingness to help you and hear you. Who cares what a crazy man thinks and feels? They just prefer to lock you up in a ward and stuff you with pills to keep you calm.
Suddenly your life collapses into a dark abyss, where you find yourself alone, cold and scared. No one understands you, no one can hear your cries for help. Who will stay by your side? Who can you really rely on? Who really loves you so much as not to abandon you at this dark hour?
And the most important question - what would you do if everybody around you, even the so-called experts, tried to assure you that there is no way out? That from now on your life would be just this - a sheer hell and madness, that there is no way back? Would you just throw in the towel and resign yourself or would you rather say: "I won't give up! I'll find a way out! I will have my old normal life back! I want to live! I still exist! I'm still able to think and suffer! I am not just some vegetable! I want to live and feel happy and loved!"
This is exactly what the main character of this amazing book tries to accomplish - to find his way out of the dark abyss of madness. On his way, he will demonstrate incredible will power, love for life, faith in himself and in the possibility of a better future and happiness for himself. This book will be of interest both to professionals in the field of mental health who, surely, will be able to draw a lot of useful information from it, as well as to general readers, who will learn from it to never give up, be strong, believe in themselves and fight for their own happiness, no matter what kind of difficulties life might put before them. This is a book that really gives hope.
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