Author Rachel Aviv is a staff writer for the The New Yorker and has written many enlightening articles about kids struggling to find their way in the often confusing maze of adult-made systems. Aviv now writes about the inner struggle of mental illness and the accompanying stories that we tell ourselves about the mental illness. Where did your phobia come from? Why do some people have so much much rage inside of them and why? And who are you really if you are not taking the psychotropic that you've taken for years? The author combs through memoirs and and journals to try to answer the age old question of what and who has shaped the people that we become and has written a book oozing with empathy for those who struggle. Rachel Aviv knows the struggle well as she was diagnosed and treated for an eating disorder at the age of 6.
Highly recommended and readers will come away realizing that their diagnosis is not their identity.
* I read an advance copy and was not compensated.