by Keith Vander Wees (Author)
Keith Vander Wees is a mental illness and homelessness survivor. After a wellness journey of almost 30 years he has written this harrowing yet uplifting memoir, reflecting on his lifelong battle with psychosis and schizophrenia and offering his personal story as a message of hope and inspiration.
In Struggling to Be Well, Vander Wees chronicles his childhood in Northern Ontario during the 1960s, carries readers through a turbulent adolescence playing and travelling with many bands in Toronto, working in Israel, homelessness, numerous hospital admissions, and ultimately recounts his triumph in regaining a sense of stability and agency over his life now working for a Major League Baseball team in Toronto.
This important book would be of interest to anyone who would like to have an inside look at what its like to live with a mental illness.
Number of Pages: 274
Dimensions: 0.58 x 8 x 5 IN
Publication Date: June 09, 2022
