The Intro to My Book Embrace the Journey

Introduction

People like to tell me I need help and that I am nutts. Maybe that is true in the real sense of things, growing up I use to think that I was different from everyone else because of the way I saw the world and interpreted things within the world. I always felt growing up like a black sheep, like I did not fit in with anyone or anything, believe me I tried to care about what other people cared about and what they felt was important, but I did not hold that same care factor, in fact a lot of the issues and things most people care about I felt was stupid and dumb to give a second thought too.

Therefore, I often found myself alone and isolated, in many cases by choice but regardless I spend a lot of time alone. In my isolation/alone time I found myself engrossed with reading books, learning things and spending more than enough time in my head. For a long time I did not know who I was or what I wanted because as I stated before I have been so wrapped up in trying to be like other people I never found me.

The focus of this book is my own personal journey of self-discovery and acceptance. I am an African American woman who suffers for a mental illness.