{"id":6503,"date":"2011-05-09T15:34:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2011-05-09T15:34:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:34:40","slug":"author-shares-life-with-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6503","title":{"rendered":"Author Shares Life With Mental Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<br \/>\nSentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, May 21st, <strong>Ms. Swiyyah Muhammad<\/strong> will host a book signing to introduce her true story to the community. Entitled \u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Crazy! I\u2019m Just In Love,\u201d the book as created to inspire others to recognize and accept the changes that takes place in life.<\/p>\n<p>The book signing will take place at Candy Lowe\u2019s Tea Time, 904\u00bd E. Henry Avenue, Tampa, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Muhammad<\/strong> said, \u201cI want to tell people that it is okay to take medication for mental illnesses. I was 28 years old when I had my first episode, but I refused to accept it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Muhammad<\/strong> earned her B. A. Degree in Psychology with a Business minor from the University of South Florida. After graduation, she earned certification as a TV Producer and has produced several shows in the bay area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Muhammad<\/strong> said, \u201cI always thought I was a normal person and normal people don\u2019t get mental illnesses. After being diagnosed as a Schizophrenic, I didn\u2019t believe it and refused to take my medicine. I knew what the symptoms were because I had earned my degree in Psychology and had studied Parapsychology as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, I finally accepted it after being hospitalized 6 times. Now, I feel that by telling my story, I may save someone\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She hopes that others having this problem will attend the book signing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor On Saturday, May 21st, Ms. Swiyyah Muhammad will host a book signing to introduce her true story to the community. Entitled \u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Crazy! I\u2019m Just In Love,\u201d the book as created to inspire others to recognize and accept the changes that takes place in life. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}