: L.C. Carlson
: A Mile In My Shoes Hope for Mental Health
: BookBaby
: 9781098327873
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: Klinische Fächer
: English
: 188
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A true account of a young man who is dealing with a mental illness. He tells of how mental illness impacts his life. His mother writes to advocate for help for others with a mental illness. The book is also of how faith helps, as they see God working through caring people, and how good can come out of any circumstance. The book is also how help is needed for the Mental Health System.

Chapter 2


The new house and neighborhood were like another world. There were no dilapidated houses, crammed into narrow weed-filled yards with the steady hum and screech of traffic nearby. Dad had stressed to the realtor, The most important requirement is a good location. Their new white two-story house had a fenced, flower-filled back yard, and was on a quiet street near green lawns, with people they didn t even know smiling at them. The day they moved in, the children in the next yard leaned against the fence and smiled.

To Larry, it soon felt like home. The house was theirs; they weren t just using it like the others. They all worked to fix up the house, and on Saturdays, they drove around to explore the area of corner stores, churches, schools, parks, well-kept homes, and welcoming neighbors.

Before long, Larry and his brothers and the neighbor boys were good friends. When school started, they walked to school together; and one day, Larry met a chubby boy with a crew cut, who was in the same grade and lived nearby. They became best friends, and because he was Larry s first real friend, he said he was his buddy, and he called him Bud.

Larry was beginning to feel secure. When sad thoughts came to him about the old neighborhood, the run-down houses with bullies lying in wait behind them, he pushed the thought away till it felt as if they d never happened. He didn t want things spoiled for him now.

The first year in the new house brought changes. Larry and his brothers wore crew cuts, and Larry now wore glasses. Dad bought a ping pong table for the basement, and Mom bought a piano. But lessons for Larry, with the boys waiting outside, was too much. He closed the lid and slid off the bench, I don t want this. They re waiting for me. He ran outside and they all left for the park. They returned later patting Larry on the back. He d made the longest home run. He wore a big grin, his shoulders seemed straighter, as if he d shed a weight he d been carrying.

A week later, Larry saw Dad wearing a big smile, Boys, we ve got a house, now let s get ourselves a dog. What do you say?

Yeah,