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    Twisted Love: My Mother's Struggle with Mental Illness
    Twisted Love: My Mother's Struggle with Mental Illness
    Twisted Love: My Mother's Struggle with Mental Illness
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    Twisted Love: My Mother's Struggle with Mental Illness

    By Yassin Hall

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    Need motivation on how to cope and become a success?

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    This trans-formative book grips readers from the beginning and takes you on an emotional ride through the eyes of a child of a mother suffering with schizophrenia as she matures into womanhood. Journey Untold will make you laugh, make you cry, and most importantly spark a conversation about how people can cope with life’s challenges.

    Mental illness is something that is still not talked about in the many communities, but especially in communities of color, like the one I grew up in, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. This memoir offers a look at mental illness from my perspective as the child of a mother suffering from the effects of schizophrenia.

    Do you need motivation? Dealing with mental illness, depression, sexual assault, domestic abuse, divorce and life struggles, be inspired to keep on going and becoming a success.

    If you know someone with any of the 16 forms of mental illness GET this book!
    If you suffer or knows someone that suffers with depression GET this book!
    If you were sexually assaulted GET this book!
    If you were a young teenage parent GET this book!
    If you were/are a victim of domestic abuse GET this book!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYassin Hall
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9781310536526
    Twisted Love: My Mother's Struggle with Mental Illness
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    Yassin Hall

    She comes from humble beginnings that would make most people throw in the towel, but her journey is one that demonstrates how important perseverance and determination are to reaching one’s destiny. She’s a mother, dance mom, fashionista, model manager, entrepreneur, life mentor, speaker and now Author. She is Yassin Hall, a U.S. Virgin Islander with roots on St. Thomas and St. John. However, Hall’s true passion has always been tied to fashion and clothing, as she began modeling in her teen years and designing.From the age of twelve, she was raised by her maternal grandmother and paternal uncle after her mother suffered a mental breakdown in front of her. It was a day that changed her life forever. She wants her story as a child living with a mother with mental illness to raise awareness and help others. Mental illness in many communities is taboo & unspoken. She feels that cycle should be broken so others suffering with depression, anxiety, and mental disorders can be made aware of their conditions and know that it is okay to receive help before going over the edge.

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      Book preview

      Twisted Love - Yassin Hall

      JOURNEY UNTOLD

      TWISTED LOVE

      MY MOTHER’S STRUGGLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

      Copyright 2014 Yassin Hall

      Published by Yassin Hall at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Prologue

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Epilogue

      A Conversation with Yassin Hall

      About Yassin Hall

      About Lo’an Sewer

      Connect with Yassin Hall

      Acknowledgements

      I would like to first acknowledge God for giving me this life and the struggles I have encountered. Although it was, and still is hard at times, I see now that my purpose is to help others through my pain. I thank Him for the gift of life. I also extend my gratitude to the following: my family -- My Aunty Ruby, my Godmother Aunty Norma, the Simmonds family, my Uncle Sam, and the best friend God sent me during my trying times in adulthood Jeanelle Moolenaar. I especially want to thank my children Roumell Augustine, Aubrey Warner Jr., Marik Young, and Yamisha Young, for without them I really could not continue to live. I extend additional hugs and kisses to AJ, Riki and Misha for their understanding of the long sleepless nights, and the sacrifices they make every day so we can all try as best as we can to live each other's dreams together.

      I would like to thank my co-author Loán Sewer for encouraging me to write my story and also special thanks to her team of editors. Though at the time writing my story about my mother was not my idea my first book, she knew that this story, Twisted Love, should be the first in the series of my Journey Untold. She saw the strength and power in this story about my mother's illness. Loán is not only the co-author she is my cousin. She knows my personality and the woman that I have become. She believed in me and knew that together we could make an impact in the community through my experience. Now that it has been brought to fruition, I am humbly grateful for her having taken on this task. Her incredible writing abilities to take out her personal emotions and tell this story with all her soul should be commended. A special thank you to my Grandma Ethlyn Louise Harthman - Lindqvist Hall (RIP) for the gift of land that has been in our family for roughly one hundred and forty-seven years and my home in St. John. I will forever treasure my homeland. Lastly, my thanks to the Virgin Islands community for their outpouring of support and continued love. I thank you sincerely, for without my community I really would not be this strong version of ME today.

      Introduction

      What is it about mental illness that makes people just act like it doesn’t exist? Despite strides made today, it is not openly discussed in many communities, especially in communities of color, like the one I grew up in, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Whether in the U.S., the Caribbean, Africa, our South America, there is still a lot of shame associated with mental illness, so people choose often to suffer silently while their lives are unraveling right in front of their eyes.

      This memoir offers a look at mental illness from my perspective as the child of a mother suffering from the effects of schizophrenia. The pages ahead offer a snapshot of the early years of my life, the beginning of my Journey Untold, and my journey to finding myself. In it, you will hear an honest, first-person narrative of the early years that shaped the woman I am today, and from time to time, Self, the outspoken part of my personality may share a thought or two. No, I don’t have split personalities, but it’s just my way of giving you all of me, as authentically and openly as I know how.

      A few years ago I embarked on a journey to develop a women’s clothing line and that opened the door for some amazing opportunities. One of them was to host my spring collection fashion show every year in March to showcase the latest designs to potential customers. During my 2014 Spring into a New YOU fashion showcase, I made the decision to share a little about myself with the attendees and provide them with a look into the heart and soul of the person creating and selling these fashions for them. It was life-changing. By the time I finished sharing my story with them, there was not a dry eye in the room, and after the show people were coming up to me saying how my words had touched them. So here we are today, with Journey Untold. It is a raw, unapologetic perspective – from my point of view - of the period in my childhood when I lost my mother to the sneaky, unsuspecting grip of mental illness and what that experience did to and for me.

      My hope is that this book will help to remove the shame associated with this disease and that a discussion can take place in personal circles about the harm that is

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