Resilience Through Recovery by Angela Grey

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Because I personally know how hard it is to tell your own story, I was generous with the stars. I feel as if it fell more in a two star area with the actual book itself. There are some areas of brilliance, but there are others where you feel like five chapters have been cut out of the story. Some people are mentioned fleetingly and then later are referred to in a way that makes you think there should have been more emphasis on them earlier. The path of the story is rather discombobulated as well. I was also hoping that the end would wrap up with some sort of analysis of what in her life was significant to the mental disorder and what her actual disorder was. Being a psychology major, I see that there is PTSD with paranoid delusions. The author's synopsis on the back leads us to believe she had a breakthrough about her mental health, but the book does not convey this. We read of the horrors this woman went through as a child and her difficulties as an adult. There seems to be a huge chasm between these time periods that we are not even getting. I wish there had been more to it to really smooth over the entire story. This woman had lived through some terrible things and was greatly affected by them, but the book was hard to read because of the delivery of the story, not the story itself.