Winning Back Life: A Journey Through Madness and Voice Hearing

by Chance Love

Overview

Chance Love is an entrepreneur and advocate for those who hear voices, have visions, and experience bizarre perceptions. Chance Love attended college and entered the workforce before experimenting with life. Exposure to drugs, involvement in the black market, and trying to pursue the American dream ended up being too much. These ingredients were the backdrop for a series events that led to psych wards visits and a diagnosis of bipolar I and schizophrenia disorder. Winning Life Back is an exploration of recovery and the time spent before, during, and after periods of divine madness, isolation, and treatment. This work disseminates the wisdom that can be garnered from extreme experiences of mental states with the hope to educate others about narratives of mental health and recovery. Chance Love explores experiences and touches on lessons learned that are relevant to the world at large. By sharing and examining visions, voices, and unconscious bleed through it is possible to see that there is more going on during madness than meets the eye. Chance Love relates the underlying misconceptions about the schizophrenia and mental illness through his lived experiences. This is a story that explores the effects of stigma, the reality of medical intervention, the appearance of wellbeing vs the true state of inner realties and is another anecdotal example of why we need to broaden the scope of education about extreme states of consciousness. Education and guidance could shorten narratives of madness and confusion like Chance Love experienced and improve countless lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781796081053
Publisher:	Xlibris US
Publication date:	01/07/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	380 KB

About the Author

Chance Love has experienced unconscious bleeding in the form of visions and voices for over 10 years. After graduating college and setting out into the world to become an entrepreneur Chance Love found himself breaking bad. While running a successful business he found his way into the black market of recreational drugs, was seduced by easy money, and rode a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows. Despite knowing better Chance Love let his life spiral out of control as he probed the depths of his mind by taking mind altering substances. After repeated exposures, he found that he could hear voices, access odd perceptions, and become a true observer in a world of madness. Today, Chance Love has recovered from the fall that left him focusing on how to educate others to seek connection, community, and treatment. Chance Love’s story is a testament to the human condition and recovery.