GLEN COVE, N.Y., July 15, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- "Life was a rat race and the world became a trap," author James Stewart states.
James Stewart knows the pain of a debilitating mental illness. As a participant of therapeutic services for the past 30 years, he has encountered the pitfalls of mental and physical illness. Now, Stewart wishes to share with the world the way he learned to live an independent life, while suffering from mental illness in his new book, Positive Outlook from Therapy: From the Other Side of the Fence (now available through 1stBooks).
"Positive Outlook from Therapy doesn't come from the professional viewpoint ... it is a testament of personalized experiences from an individual that dealt with institutionalization, unemployment and intensive medication treatment," Stewart says.
Stewart's book has the many learned lessons derived from those years of experience. Within this testament, Stewart says there exists the resulting solutions and answers to the many questions on life and the lessons of therapeutic intervention.
"The hopes are to give a digest of information to the many who seek a source of information where many of their queries can be interpreted in a light that may be digestible from a different point of view," Stewart states.
The book's many interpretations are answers to given questions from a perspective where help was received. Stewart says many of the problems he outlines were experienced from the perspective that the complexity of the illness could not be avoided. He was only able to seek the answers by personally accepting the existence of the problem.
"Sometimes a vacation to get away does not bring the solutions a person was looking for. Sometimes the time spent with friends does not bring the solutions sought. Sometimes the trap becomes unbearable and help is just around the corner. Here is a positive outlook about that therapeutic world," Stewart states.
Therapy has been Stewart's salvation. Substance abuse in adolescence left him with a chemical imbalance. Unemployed, he no longer could control the mental anguish that was crippling his life. In therapy, he learned to manage his life away from drugs, eventually returning to college and graduating with a degree. His life is in a much better place now, Stewart notes. Positive Outlook from Therapy is his first book.
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