Seeds of Hope: Living with Mental Challenges and Surviving Is a brief overview of my recovery story and my latest accomplishment, earning my Certified Peer Support Specialist Credential to afford me the ability to work with my peers . I owe my success to the people in my life who have encouraged me and helped me along the way to get to where I am in life. I have them to owe for my success because they believed in me when I was unsure of myself.

This story is an autobiography revised from the first volume but in more detail and accuracy it takes you through the life's journey of an African-American woman's battle with Chronic Mental Illness. The story spans her early years from birth and to the present and it culminates to her present circumstances and experiences as she provides her reader with an overview of her initial volume I edition with a snip of the introduction. The present title deals with perceived rejection she feels from others on a daily basis. She candidly discusses how being overlooked and misunderstood by friends, adopted family, co-workers and others results in her the consumer feeling left out of things. She ends the story with a touching acknowledgement of who the Lord is to her giving him all the honor and glory and praise for what he has done for her in her recovery. She talks about her adoption into the Hartman family and she ends with a note on the lessons she has learned in life. She also talks about her latest diagnosis with ADHD some activities related to work experience and her latest issues that created controversy with complaints to addressing concerns with elected officials asking for their support in matters of mental illness awareness.

My Battle With Mental Illness Personified; Rejected, Ignored & Thrown Away is an autobiography about the life and struggle of Nemasa Asetra with mental illness. The story spans her life from her early years and it culminates to her present experiences. It deals with perceived rejection that the mentally ill experience on a daily basis when they are over looked and misunderstood by friends, family, co-workers and others. She also talks about how the African-American community shun the mentally ill and how the problem of mental illness is not addressed, as well as the fact that there is no Black specific support system. She even discusses candidly rejection and predjudice in the workplace when it is known that the employee has a mental illness. The story ends with a touching acknowledgement of who the Lord is to her in her life. And how he has kept her in the midst of her mental illness with the proper medications and treatment plan.