Struggling To Be Well: My life story and triumph over Schizophrenia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798792158160)

Keith Vander Wees is a mental illness and homelessness survivor. After a wellness journey of almost 30 years he has written this harrowing yet uplifting memoir, reflecting on his lifelong battle with psychosis and schizophrenia and offering his personal story as a message of hope and inspiration.

In Struggling to Be Well, Vander Wees chronicles his childhood in Northern Ontario during the 1960s, carries readers through a turbulent adolescence playing and travelling with many bands in Toronto, working in Israel, homelessness, numerous hospital admissions, and ultimately recounts his triumph in regaining a sense of stability and agency over his life now working for the Major League Baseball team in Toronto.

This book would be of interest to anyone who would like to have an inside look at what its like to live with a mental illness.