One Year On At Defying Mental Illness

It is exactly a year since we posted our first blog on the Defying Mental Illness website.  Chucks took the ground running with his first post on coming off medication setting the warm temperature for inspiration that is found on our blogs.   Chuck had been on medication for as long as he could remember, a total of 16 long years before winning and recovering from mental illness.

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Chuck’s first encounter with mental illness is chronicled in this moving post where Chuck talks of the start of what was to be a long journey with mental illness following an initial diagnosis of psychotic depression.

You can read here how Chuck handled his initial reaction to being diagnosed with mental illness.  At this time, Chuck was a very young man who had everything to live for.  Fresh from university, with the world being his oyster, the brakes were suddenly put on and life became a monotonous existence of medication, admission in mental hospitals, and work life thankfully!

But just how did Chuck forge a career with a diagnosis of mental illness?  Chuck dispels the myth here that you are anything but useful in the workplace in this post here.  We see the humanity side of having an understanding boss who helped Chuck to forge ahead in laying a good foundation and giving him confidence to being who he eventually became, a fully qualified profession with several years of experience and still going.

Zoe, Chuck’s wife, comes on the scene throughout the year, here and there with inspirational blogs on her side as a caregiver.  She asks the question, what would you have done in my shoes   on meeting Chuck and finding out that he was challenged with mental illness.  We get to find out there are happy endings indeed even when challenged with mental illness and thank God for His favor.  With love and tenacity, Defying Mental Illness came as a result of Chuck meeting Zoe, both being in love, getting married, defying the odds of mental illness and having a vision.

Defying Mental Illness has had a host of other bloggers.  There have been blogs on Bullying, Female Genital Mutilation, Eating Disorders, Diet and Food, and Beauty, for example.

We sincerely hope you have enjoyed your time with us and we look forward to having you with us in the next year and years to come.   We are promising you more excitement in the weeks and months ahead on your number one mental illness blog.

About The Author

Zoe

Zoe met Eze (Chuck) in the 14th year of what turned out to be an 18 year ‘journey’ with mental illness. They got married less than a year of meeting with Zoe fully knowing Chuck had a diagnosis of mental illness. In the 18th year, Chuck defied the odds of mental illness. A consultant psychiatrist signed him off the mental health system with a bill of NO MENTAL ILLNESS. The consultant was so amazed by Chuck’s astonishing recovery that he even questioned how Chuck was diagnosed with mental illness all those years before, in the first place! Today Chuck is free from medication, its dependency and hospitalizations. Zoe’s award nominated book, DEFYING THE ODDS, chronicles the highs and ‘lows’ of this journey. Zoe, often writing from the standpoint of a caregiver, clearly understands that mental illness does not only affect an individual challenged with the disease, but also families, marriages and society as a whole.

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