Through My Eyes

By Sarah Jane

I would like to welcome you to the journey of my life. I will share the trials and tribulations that I’ve had to endure throughout my lifetime to become who I am and what I understand about mental illness and its effects today. I’m in no way defeated. If anything, I’m a more determined person with a deep understanding of life, physical illness, mental illness, depression, and so on.
Each passage in this book is a recollection of my view of the events described (which is the whole point). It is, however, all true from my point of view, and the effects it has had on me along the way and how I have overcome them are real.
My aim, hope, and reasoning for sharing my life story is to give other people a way of helping themselves through their own problems and troubles. I hope I will be able to show and give you, the reader, the ability to look at your own life as a whole and to put all the pieces of the puzzle together and then be able to deal with whatever is causing your troubles. I believe that we are shaped into who we are from the day we are born and affected by life experiences along the way. If we have the insight to look back at our life, we can then start to see a pattern and determine where we have gone wrong or why we are the way we are.
I truly believe after you have read this book, you will have hope and be-lief that you can help yourself and that there is light at the end of the tunnel regardless of how bad your situation may be or how you feel at the time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Aug 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728388922

Sarah Jane

Sarah Jane has waited patiently for over 30 years to create The Adventures of Pinkington Trunk. Sarah Jane previously cared for children as a nanny, childminder and a mother of six, she would create rhymes and jingles to make the children around her giggle, smile and feel happy. The Adventures of Pinkington Trunk - Finding Emily is the first book in the series and Sarah Jane has a masterful way with words to keep her readers wanting to read it time and time again.

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Published by AuthorHouse 08/28/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8890-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8891-5 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8892-2 (e)

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Contents

Author’s Note

Reader’s Guide

Passage 1

Passage 2

Passage 3

Passage 4

Passage 5

Passage 6

Author’s Note

I would like to welcome you to the journey of my life. I will share the trials and tribulations that I’ve had to endure throughout my lifetime to become who I am and what I understand about mental illness and its effects today. I’m in no way defeated. If anything, I’m a more determined person with a deep understanding of life, physical illness, mental illness, depression, and so on.

Each passage in this book is a recollection of my view of the events described (which is the whole point). It is, however, all true from my point of view, and the effects it has all had on me along the way and how I have overcome them are real. All names mentioned in this book are pseudonyms, as this book is about my journey through my eyes and how it affected me.

My aim, hope, and reasoning for sharing my life story is to give other people a way of helping themselves through their own problems and troubles. I hope I will be able to show and give you, the reader, the ability to look at your own life as a whole and to put all the pieces of the puzzle together and then be able to deal with whatever is causing your troubles. I believe that we are shaped into who we are from the day we are born and affected by life experiences along the way. If we have the insight to look back at our life, we can then start to see a pattern and determine where we have gone wrong or why we are the way we are.

I truly believe after you have read this book, you will have hope and belief that you can help yourself and that there is light at the end of the tunnel regardless of how bad your situation may be or how you feel at the time.

In my book, I will have to break down each major event that I’ve suffered from starting from the first to the present time. I will do so by age with a passage about each event. I did it this way so it will give you the concept of putting your life down on paper in stages so you can then look at it as a whole, as this is the key. It is my hope that by the end of my book, you will grasp and understand why.

I’m very sure that through reading my story, you will connect with at least one of the experiences that I’ve been through, and I hope that this will help you to overcome and deal with the relevant issue. If you are, however, affected by my book in any way, there will be helpline numbers provided on the last page of the book for you to obtain support for yourself or a loved one.

Throughout this book, I will also provide useful links and numbers of organizations that I’ve used and have found to be very helpful indeed to the relevant events.

Reader’s Guide

I have created this guide as to what is in each passage, for example, panic disorder, miscarriage, or depression. The passage details my experience at that time and explains why I suffered each illness. By the end of the book, you will have a clearer understanding of how certain experiences can have this kind of effect on a person. Once you grasp the idea