Coming May 3, 2022!
I, ROB GRAVES
My struggle with childhood trauma,
homosexuality, and bipolar disorder.
Coming May 3, 2022!
I, ROB GRAVES
My struggle with childhood trauma,
homosexuality, and bipolar disorder.
About the Book
When I was nine years old and in the fourth grade, I had my first thought of self-harm. I confided in my mother of my plan to kill myself. She hugged me, told me it would be okay, and sent me back to the kitchen to finish my homework. I have spent the rest of my life dealing with chronic clinical depression and bipolar disorder. This book
When I was nine years old and in the fourth grade, I had my first thought of self-harm. I confided in my mother of my plan to kill myself. She hugged me, told me it would be okay, and sent me back to the kitchen to finish my homework. I have spent the rest of my life dealing with chronic clinical depression and bipolar disorder. This book chronicles my life-long struggle with mental health problems and how I overcame them through years of therapy, pharmacology and learning the arts of forgiveness and acceptance.
This book does not teach or preach any specific cure to the mental health struggles I suffer from. Instead, I let the reader decide whether my life choices are right or wrong for their journey. I give a candid and poignant story about my life as a gay man suffering from bipolar depression. I aim to provide an inspirational example of breaking the cycle of mental health stigmas and addiction, both in the gay community and the community at large. In this book, I focus on the benefits of talk therapy, medication management, and forgiveness as a core to overcoming the past and thriving in the present. I use my lifelong struggles with bipolar depression and a genetic disposition for substance abuse—which morphed into an anonymous sex addiction during the height of the AIDS Epidemic—to illustrate the dangers of treatment noncompliance. Through it all, I will share the journey I took to come to terms with my homosexuality and overcome tremendous health odds to find success and peace with myself. Other topics I explore in this memoir include suicide, poverty, domestic violence, and alcoholism. The proper use of therapy, pharmacology, and medication management are central themes in my story. Other topics I explore in this memoir include suicide, poverty, domestic violence, and alcoholism.