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But her stepmother’s schemes aren’t the only secrets hiding belowdecks…and the stakes of her voyage may be higher than any happy ending.more
THE BEHOLDER SERIES
Now that day has finally come.īut after an excruciatingly public rejection from her closest childhood friend, Selah’s stepmother suggests an unthinkable solution: Selah must set sail across the Atlantic, where a series of potential suitors awaits-and if she doesn’t come home engaged, she shouldn’t come home at all.įrom English castle gardens to the fjords of Norge, and under the eye of the dreaded Imperiya Yotne, Selah’s quest will be the journey of a lifetime. As the only daughter of the leader of Potomac, she knows her duty is to find the perfect match, a partner who will help secure the future of her people.

But after an excruciatingly public rejection from her closest childhood friend, Selah’s stepmother suggests an unthinkable solution: S Selah has waited her whole life for a happily ever after. His experience in jail and prison has made it easier to communicate with those who are experiencing the painful realities of having mental illness.Selah has waited her whole life for a happily ever after. As part of the Mental Health Association, it is now his job to educate the public. Judges and attorneys who are knowledgeable will conduct these courts. Today, with the help of advocates, such as himself, mental health courts are springing up across America. It is society’s job to make sure that fellow citizens with mental illnesses are afforded a recovery environment. The lesson he learned after his release was that if society invests in a correctional system that aims not to just warehouse inmates, then society will benefit with communities that are not at as much risk for violence and criminality. His release from prison was met with more difficulty with the lack of governmental or community programs to support him. His mental health treatment consisted of exhaustively looking for books that could encourage him. Once this diagnosis was realized to be false, he began receiving lithium, but only saw a psychiatrist twice for the duration of his incarceration. When first incarcerated, he was told he was not bipolar by the prison psychiatrist and denied medication. This launched him into a severe mania of life and eventually incarceration. During a stressful time in his life and after reading a book emphatically stating that psychotropic drugs were poisonous and toxic, he stopped taking his medication, lithium. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder for 20 years, a man, 36 years of age encountered the courts and incarceration for the first time.
THE BEHOLDER MANUALS
Treatment manuals abound, but judges, defense attorneys and prosecutors lack the time to really understand mental illness. Despite the increasing knowledge about mental illness, there appears to be increasing confusion.
