My Journey Through Schizophrenia. This book recounts the life of a young girl who has to battle paranoid schizophrenia. It began when she turned nineteen and little did she know that she would be stripped of many opportunities like school and work because of it. Her one escape throughout hospital stays and her troubled mind is her love of writing and her desire to educate others on the subject of mental health. As her mental health declines, will she ever find the right treatment and medication to help find her way through life?