I Bet You Didn’t Know This

By Angela Ross

This book is a story about my life. I endured tumultuous relationships with my family as well as issues with mental illness. I endured failed marriages, physical abuse, homelessness, and hunger. For a huge part of my life, I was in and out of psychiatric units. The one thing that got me through it all was my faith in the Almighty God.

Not only can you prosper with mental illness, but you can also have a healthy relationship with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796029307

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 The Beginning

Chapter 2 Fire Burns

Chapter 3 Daddy’s Not Little Girl

Chapter 4 Bellwood Here We Come

Chapter 5 Husband 1

Too Young To Know

Chapter 6 Husband #2

You Would Think I Would Know Better

Chapter 7 The Joy Of Having My Baby

Chapter 8 A Turn For The Worse

Chapter 9 Husband #3

A Fight For My Life

Chapter 10 A Downward Spiral

Chapter 11 Thank God Things Are Finally Looking Up

CHAPTER 1

The Beginning

Hello name is Angela Ross, and this book is about my life. This book is filled with sorrow, struggles, spiritual warfare, heartache, and mental illness. With all that, this book will show you how I made it through. When some people get hit with too many negative problems in their lives, they give up, and then other people excel. In my case, it was God that brought me throw it all. So lets start from the beginning.

In 1973 I was born in Mount Sinai Hospital, in Chicago Illinois. When I was one-and-half years old I came down with asthma. Subsequently I was in the hospital a lot for that. As a baby I lived in the projects called LaCiaire Courts. I lived with my mother, my auntie, and my two sisters Desiree and Charlene. We lived in a 2 bedroom, one bath apartment. You can say it was pretty cramped, but we made the best of it. My house was very strict and spiritually orientated. We went to church faithfully every Sunday, and if we acted up in church, we get beat. As a young child growing up in a poor environment, it was hard on me, as well as everyone else. My mother did everything she could to support us. She went to nursing school and graduated for LPN. After that, she got a job working for a hospital. My mom had to support three girls, so she took any extra shift she could. Mom was not at home a lot, but we understood. It was my aunt that watched me and my sisters. That was hell. These are my early memories I had of her beating on me.

My auntie was a very strict, mean and sarcastic woman. Me and my sisters had to call her Aunt Annabelle (out of respect). As a young child I hated her. She would beat me so bad that she would leave red marks one my arms and legs. With all this going on, I was about three or four years old when I started to talk to God. Then people started to say that I was different from other kids. I know I was different, it was because of all the beatings I was receiving. So, one day I went to my mom and showed her the bruises on my body. I then told her it was from Aunt Annabelle. Mom and my auntie got into a big argument. So, my mother had to find a babysitter for me. She did and believe me that was hell as well.

I went to my new babysitter, and her