Finding Us

A Mother’s Memoir of Braving Mental Illness with her Young Daughter

Finding Us

A Mother’s Memoir of Braving Mental Illness with her Young Daughter

by Kristin Rohman Rehkamp

Pub Date 15 Oct 2022

Atmosphere Press

Biographies & Memoirs | Health, Mind & Body

I am reviewing a copy of Finding Us through Atmosphere Press and Netgalley:

Kristin found herself terrified she would loose her daughter, she was unable to breathe her chest hurt, and she was experiencing loss of sensation in limbs, dizziness, and disorientation…all rolling up to a state of terror she had never before witnessed. It was September 16, 2020 and her life changed, suddenly and without warning, with her daughter’s onset of a panic disorder.

Living with mental illness is not an easy journey, and it is not an easy one, it’s messy and it’s complicated and it doesn’t affect only the person with the disability but their loved ones as well. Despite the best of efforts, it is an experience that those dealing with it cannot control, but instead bravely learn to live with, learn from, and feasibly teach others.

Kristin Roham Rehkamp shares her story to educate and bring visibility to what…