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I, ROB GRAVES
My struggle with childhood trauma,
homosexuality, and bipolar disorder.
Now Available
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.”
Robert Graves spent the rest of his life dealing with chronic clinical depression and
bipolar disorder. I
"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.”
Robert Graves spent the rest of his life dealing with chronic clinical depression and
bipolar disorder. I, Rob Graves offers a candid and poignant story about his life as a gay man suffering from these mental health issues 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.
Graves chronicles his personal story, but rather than teach or preach any specific cure,
his memoir lets the reader decide whether the life choices described are right or wrong
for their own life path. He shares the journey he took to come to terms with his
homosexuality and overcome tremendous health odds — through years of therapy,
pharmacology, medication management, and learning the arts of forgiveness and
acceptance — to find success and peace with himself, and thrive in the present. He
aims 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.
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