The Psych Ward Notes: Surviving Anxiety and Depression

What happens when your first memories of life and conscious awareness centered around and mental illness? You end up with a mental illness or a whole bunch of them! This book is an autobiography about Peter Vox, a retired New York City physical education teacher and professional singer/drummer from long Island, New York. This book chronicles Peter's childhood, the origins of his mental illness, history with over 20 medications (whose side effects caused 3 suicide attempts), decades spent in therapy, marriage, being falsely accused of corporal punishment against his students as a retaliation for being a whistleblower, how music helps alleviate mental illness, journals written from psychiatric wards. the other patients in those wards and theories on how to handle your own mental illness. Furthermore, it's also a book about learning from past mistakes, accepting your flaws, focusing on your positive attributes, accepting help from others and realizing there are more opportunities in to start over in life if you are open minded and willing to make small changes. Along with the chronicle's of Peter's struggles are hilarious anecdotes about Peter's life that show the "happy-go-lucky" person that lives within all of us.

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Audiolibro : 1 de marzo de 2022