Schizophrenic Author, Kenneth Steele
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Schizophrenic mental health advocate, Kenneth Steele started hearing voices when he was 14. Delusional thinking and other symptoms set in fast from there. His life degenerated into a frightening and awful nightmare of hellish proportions.
But he made it out the other side.
His book is called, "The Day the Voices Stopped: A Memoir of Madness and Hope."
I love stories like these, especially in relation to mental illness. Although my site is about bipolar disorder, the tools I use can be of great benefit to sufferers of other neurological illnesses. They all have the same root causes with the same method of repair, should you follow my advice. (Under the supervision of your doctor, of course.) That reason is why I wanted to read Ken Steele's book.
Although he was afflicted with schizophrenia, he went on to become the publisher of New York City Voices: A Consumer Journal for Mental Health Advocacy.
He was also editor of The Reporter, the monthly newsletter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill/NYC-Metro Chapter and spokesperson for the National Mental Health Association's "Partners in Care."
With all he was up against, Ken persevered and became a source of strength for others who needed to be where he arrived as a person. That is truly admirable.
And as the title states, he eventually made his demons leave him alone. I highly recommend this book for its promise of hope, its inspirational outcome, and the sense of community it engenders within one, if you're a sufferer of mental illness too.
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