It's My Life: My Struggle with Mental Illness

by Irma Desjardins-Kelly

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Author: Irma Desjardins-Kelly

Publisher: Biographical Publishing Company

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ISBN 10: 0991352181
ISBN 13: 978-0991352180

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.

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