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What is Wrong with Me? by Kristin Hammoud

What is Wrong with Me?

by Kristin Hammoud

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  • Dec 2021, 326 pages
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Anna's childhood experiences and dysfunctional family patterns loom over her journey to adulthood. She struggles with relationships and cannot trust the good ones, eventually finding herself in an abusive relationship, as family secrets unfold in unpredictable ways.

Locked in a cycle of reacting to her emotional triggers and past, she constantly asks herself, What is wrong with me?

Through her journey to manage emotions and relationships, Anna gleams therapeutic insights and psychological tools, learning to cope with her mental health and discover healthy behaviors that lead to happiness and meaningful relationships. A fictional tale with a self-help twist, readers follow Anna as she hopes to answer one of life's many questions.

How does one break free from the only role and life they've ever known?

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"Hammoud has produced a triumph in what illuminates our country's ongoing struggles with the realities of ... flaring emotions, determination, and heartache." —Jose Olsvig, Author of Gullah Tears

"... [a] self-help tutorial, as we follow Anna's brave journey through childhood trauma into a tumultuous adulthood, culminating in a beautiful and important message for mental health care." —Lori Nelson Spielman, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Life List

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Kris Hammoud is an author and Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist. After graduating from Emory University with an MSN in Psychiatry and Family Practice, she has been treating patients with a wide range of psychiatric illnesses since 1999. She has worked for veterans affairs and in private practice and community health clinics, specializing in trauma, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, addiction, and other psychiatric illnesses. Sitting with hundreds of clients, each with a unique life journey, has culminated in her understanding of people's ability to adapt and find resilience in the lived experience. She shares this knowledge and imparts therapeutic insights into Anna's journey of evolution in What Is Wrong with Me?

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