Waking Up on the other side of the fence: Hearing Voices/Psychic Ability or Psychosis/Schizoaffective Disorder or Tra

By Kristine Hansen

This is a true story of a woman who suffered a concussion from a car accident nine years prior before hallucinating hearing voices, directionally challenged issues, memory loss, comprehension issues, and sleeping problems. She takes you through her experience with being misdiagnosed for fourteen years with a mental illness called Schizoaffective Disorder. Only to find out her problems and symptoms were from a traumatic brain injury. She will take you on a journey step by step of what happened to her medically, the after effects of losing jobs, getting on Social Security Disability Benefits, and more. She will also explain the difference between her psychic ability she was born with and hallucinating hearing voices. This book is informative for what the process is with having a mental illness and also learning to get a second opinion if you had a head injury and are diagnosed with a mental illness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098371661

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Waking Up On The Other Side Of The Fence:

Hearing Voices, Psychic Ability or Psychosis, Schizoaffective Disorder

or Traumatic Brain Injury, My Story

©2015 & 2019, Kristine Hansen

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

ISBN: 978-1-09837-165-4

ISBN eBook: 978-1-09837-166-1

Acknowledgments:

This book is dedicated in loving memory of Joshua N. Richardson

Special Thanks to my Editors: Keli J. Vale, Valerie Palmer, and Bernice P. Hansen

Cover Photo By: Larry Goble of Dviant Photography

Photo of Author By: Michelle Jones

Thanks to: Michael F. Hansen, Bernice P. Hansen, Michelle Jones, Luke Jones, Sherri Edwards, Michael P. Hansen, Melissa Hansen, Luke Hansen, Elaina Hansen, Dean Hansen, Janet Dryzmala, Chuck Pappas, Emily Franco, Anne Cel, Anne Sears, Keli J.Vale, Katy Spence, Robin Campbell, Bobby Corea, Louise Iadicola, Mark Stinger, Camille Peruto, Vince Corea, Patti Andrews, Jade Starling, Debbie and Joe Lindsay, Kristin Weindel, Annette Weitzman, Johnny Aubry, The Weindel family, Kathleen Tighe, Tricia Papahanges, Rita Strough, Franny Ferris, Leo P. Gilmore, Lois and Richard Howard, Dan Naturman, Ray Ellen, Glenn Smith, Jim Sandell, Jacky Bam Bam, Linda and Rob Sauter, Luke Ostertag, Mike Whren, Lisa Grey, Anna Guida, Denise Berg, Cathy Krimmel, Michelle Howe, and Julie Cicik, for support and staying.

Additional Thanks To: Dr. Ankila Chandran, Dr. Nadine C. Rosenthal, Dr. Andro Zangaladze, and Dr. Edward Lundy and all of the members of N.A.M.I., and to anyone who has a mental illness or traumatic brain injury.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Coming Out of the Darkness

Chapter Two: My Normal Life

Chapter Three: Waking Up on the Other Side of the Fence

Chapter Four: Breaking Down Walls

Chapter Five: Fighting to Work and Hold a Job

Chapter Six: The Beginning of the End

Chapter Seven: A New Dawn

Chapter 1

Coming Out of the Darkness

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whole reason for telling my story is because I don’t want anyone to ever go through what I went through! If someone, somewhere, is experiencing the same things that I have had, I want this story to help them. You need to question everything and always get a second opinion, especially if something that is happening to you doesn’t make sense with what you are told. Even if you are experiencing something you don’t know anything about.

I was always told to trust your doctors, and I did! However, I have learned everyone really needs to take their own health into their own hands to find the correct doctors and answers they are looking for, and stay strong! I didn’t know anyone that went through what I went through. There were no reference books to read, and no one had heard of Schizoaffective Disorder or concussion issues back then.

Information is like gold and the more you have, the more valuable it is to you. Learn as much information as you can find, because you are going to need it! I feel my story should start here in the middle and then flashback to the beginning. I’m also going to give false names to the real doctors involved here. I will not name the practice. I also chose not to sue the practice, or the original retired doctor from that practice, although a lawyer told me I had a case. Instead, I let go of this and turned it over to God. I wrote this book to help prevent it from happening to someone else.

My timeline with the original psychiatrist was from the fall of 2004 until September 2013. We will call her Dr. Dark because what she did was evil.

After the practice moved to its new location in 2013 I went to my next scheduled appointment with Dr. Dark on September 3rd of that year. After waiting a long time, which wasn’t unusual because she would always make her patient’s wait in the waiting room an hour from their appointed time. I was told by an employee that a man, who was a patient of hers, waited two hours in the waiting room and lost his job because of it. When he asked her to back him up to get his job back, she did not help him. He was a family man with children. Also, I was told by my former therapist that she had a patient, who was religious, that had given her a bottle of Holy Water. Because she wasn’t catholic she asked the advice from Dr. Dark by saying, What do you think I should do with this Holy Water? I’m not Catholic. She said, Dr. Dark took it out of her hand and threw it in the trash can and said, Don’t believe in that crap. My therapist was shocked and couldn’t believe she threw Holy Water in the trash and she wanted to pick it out! It’s like throwing someone’s religion out in the trash.

Anyway, at this point, I was among three other patients waiting for her and the receptionist said, Whoever is here to see Dr. Dark, she had a family emergency and we have to reschedule all of you. I was then told that I couldn’t be rescheduled with Dr. Dark because she was retiring the following week. I was shocked! She always told me that I was one of her favorite patients. (I later learned she said that to every patient). I was not notified by letter, from their office, until way later after she left the practice. I was then told that they only had nurse practitioners and therapists at their location. If I wanted another doctor I had to go to their other office. I said, "I need another