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"RECOVERY AND EMPOWERMENT-Living Schizophrenia to Become a Professional Peer
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Posted by mom123 Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:54:53 PDT
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I will be featured on a nationally syndicated radio show, the Popp Off show in Sacramento at 11:30 A.M. on Monday July 14th, 2008 on station www.kahi.com to discuss my autobiography "RECOVERY AND EMPOWERMENT-Living Schizophrenia to Become a Professional Peer", a book that shares how I experienced Schizoid Affective disorder from the age of four, experiencing the stigma of mental illness but determined not to let it bring me down after living the painful world of Schizophrenia - only to find my true Purpose - teaching RECOVERY.

After experiencing the confusion and torture of a brain disease, I eventually found real purpose in my life by sharing as a Professional Peer. I became someone that others felt they could share the cruelty of their fate and not be judged. They thought they found a person who understood and could be an example towards a road of recovery.

After suffering from the age of four the disease of Schizoid Affective Disorder suffering rejection, abuse in mental institutions, being told I'd never leave the hospital, never function and definitely never leave work again, I worked for 15 years in the mental health  field at Kern Linkage with the homeless and at Kern county Mental Health as a Recovery Specialist teaching others how to enter recovery from their mental illness.

After retiring for physical reasons I started promoting from home on radio my book, written two years ago and hopefully intend to further explore other avenues of promotion through out the world, to show people that recovery is reaching for the impossible and making it possible. I want those with a mental illness to realize my steps of recovery so they can live a normal life like I have and that others can realize that mental illness is a disease no different than diabetes or Parkinson's disease that requires medication in order for a person  with what is just a brain disease, can function normally.

Mental illness has a stigma I'd like to dispel, especially with the law and even the mental health field and with family members. We are no different than others. All we want is to live normally by having our own home, a car, and maybe even a date. We just want a chance to be accept for who we are, not what we are.

I have my own website, www.paulajonesenterprises.com that explains further how I intend to accomplish this. Please listen to www.kahi.com on Monday, at 11:30a.m. or if that time is not possible it is podcast for a full 24 hours after the show.

I invite you to be a part of this innovative way to help those you know with mental illness to recover and live a normal life like I have.

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