Rebecca Chamaa shares a personal story about revealing her secretly-held diagnosis to friends after 20 years . . .
EXCERPT: ” . . . I’m not sorry that we popped the bubble. I am now free to be me, both in public and in private, and I have the chance to use my life and my experience to help fight the stigma that left me in hiding all those years.”
ABOUT REBECCA CHAMAA
Rebecca Chamaa’s work has been published in Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Teen Vogue, Business Insider, Hope for Women, Woman Alive, and other magazines. She also wrote a book titled, Pills, Poetry & Prose: Life with Schizophrenia.
I read your articles in the devotion book “Strength and Grace”. Thank you for sharing your life, thoughts, struggles and positive outlook.
Thank you for your comment! I’m happy you find my devotionals uplifting. All my best to you!
I’m sorry about your loss. Thank you for sharing and for your support.
I have bipolar. Love your stories in Guideposts and reread them.Keep writing!
Thank you so much!
I read your short pieces in Guideposts – Strength and Grace.
I admire your courage and faith and that you have a patient loving husband. God bless you. I hope you know that your writings help many people, also myself.
Thank you so much! I love that you found my Strength and Grace devotionals! God bless you!
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve been a psychiatric nurse for 23 years now. My brother was mentally ill and died as a direct result of his disease. It’s so important for people like you to speak up and show the world that mental illness is not a hopeless condition as portrayed in movies like “The Shining,” and similar sensationalistic nonsense. Bless you and enjoy your life
I’m sorry about the loss of your brother. Thank you for doing the difficult work of a psychiatric nurse for so many years, and thank you for taking the time to comment.
I have recorded proofs of psychologists in CT with evidence fabrication roles, and with drug crimes. Are you a psychiatrist? You wrote something of insidious nature in relationship to another post you then locked responses from, and with a pattern of that tied to insulation of proofs of system psychology crimes, and delusions since founding.
Oh My. This was one of your best pieces, I have read yet. I am smiling from the photos though. <3 Sarah's Attic Of Treasures, Hugs Sarah
Thank you, Sarah!
Thanks for this beautiful, clear, heartening & honest account. I learned a lot & wish the author continued success & all kinds of peace & happiness.
Thank you, Ellen! I appreciate your support and comments!
All the best to you, always!
And to you!