It's My Life: My Struggle with Mental Illness

By Irma Desjardins-Kelly

I am a young 69 year old woman, mother of 2 children, a faithful wife for the past 34 years and lived all my life in Canada in the beautiful Maritime provinces on the Atlantic coast. I had a happy childhood, was the third child of a family of 11 children and the oldest of 6 girls. At seventeen, I entered a cloister in Montreal, Quebec. Two years later, I started to have mental health problems. I was hospitalized 6 or 7 times and barely earned my living, holding on to several jobs while being sick. Under psychiatric care during a 15 year period, my psychiatrist had promised me to "get me out of there . With much constant struggle and iron will I finally came out of my misery. At the age of 35, I got married ...and then I became a mother at the age of 37 and again at the age of 45. I now live in Moncton, New-Brunswick and prior to my retirement, I worked for several years in a transition home for people suffering from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0991352181
• ISBN13: 9780991352180
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Biographical Publishing Company
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"