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    Through The Withering Storm: My Teen Years With
    Through The Withering Storm: My Teen Years With
    Through The Withering Storm: My Teen Years With
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    Through The Withering Storm: My Teen Years With

    By Leif Gregersen

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    "Through The Withering Storm" is a story of adventure, of pain and hardship and a young life nearly destroyed by a severe mental illness. The main character, namely the author of the book, travels far and wide, attempts to earn a pilot's license, attempts to join the military, but everywhere he turns his illness haunts him and seemingly inevitably shoots down his hopes and dreams. In the end, a new understanding is achieved, and many things change, though until proper treatment and proper compliance come hand in hand to him, the main character suffers on.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeif Gregersen
    Release dateSep 19, 2011
    ISBN9781466135512
    Through The Withering Storm: My Teen Years With
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    Leif Gregersen

    I have been driven to become the best possible writer I could be from a young age. At six I got a toy typewriter and I would spend my allowance on things like a thesaurus or blank paper to draw and make stories on. Every day after school in elementary I remember walking a mile to visit the library and take out books on mouse detectives or invisible ten year-olds. I remember a book I read in grade five about a young girl whose mother refused to leave their high-rise apartment. I have had some success with poetry and magazine articles, but what I really want to do is write books, and I have completed two. One is already available in many places and the other needs some fine-tuning. The second book I wrote is a novel about life in British Columbia in a small town not unlike the one I grew up in, though I grew up in Alberta. At the moment I make my living setting up stages for rock concerts and I get a small disability pension which I hope to one day cancel and live only by my own means. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder/manic depression at the age of 18 and had a very hard time until I came to accept that diagnosis as fact. For any more I guess you have to buy the book!

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      Even before I started reading this book I was drawn to it. Being someone who suffers with depression I like to hear other’s stories. It makes me not feel so alone in the world. Even when you’re surrounded by family and friends when you’re dealing with depression you still feel very alone. So having these stories is somewhat therapeutic for me. It’s like the light at the end of the tunnel. Someone else has been there and look where they are now – you can get there too. It was comforting to see some of what I have experienced over the last few years also be a part of someone else’s life. So I have to thank Leif for sharing his story with the world. I hope that it brings about the awareness you are striving for.While this book was therapeutic for me to read I think that it’s something the loved ones of a mentally ill person could benefit from. I think if you’ve never been the one to deal with depression it’s really hard to understand what it’s like. What kind of struggles occur on a daily basis. And those of us with depression can’t always explain what we’re going through, because in all honesty you don’t really know what’s going on sometimes. Now my depression has never gotten to the point of hallucinations, like Leif’s does, but I still have dealt with many of the things he has dealt with. He explains what he was going through so well. I think that’s the biggest benefit a mentally healthy person could get from this – he explains so well what depression is like.The book is well written. Even though it’s a biography it doesn’t read like a biography. It’s easy to follow and isn’t monotonous. The adventures that Leif has in his life are the things that fiction is based on. There’s even a few times where he makes reference to “that’s how they did it in the movies.” And even though depression and Leif’s story are not happy topics, it’s not a heavy story. I don’t think I would have been able to make it to the end if it were a heavy book. Yes it’s great to read someone else’s story, but it really made me look at some of the things in my life that were similar to Leif’s.So it’s an exciting book in that there’s a lot going on. It’s a learning tool in that it spells out pretty accurately what a depressed person is going through. And it’s also a comfort to someone with depression to be able to see in writing that they aren’t the only one. Given how common mental illness is becoming in the world I think this is one that just about anyone would benefit from reading. If it’s not you, it’s likely someone you know that is going through something similar.I was provided a copy of this book in exchange for a review. This review is my truthful honest opinion.

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