justin j. witte

I have written two books so far: A Vicious Cycle and The Shadowed Soul. Both are self help. I was a functional illiterate for most of my life because of all my learning disabilities, but today I am in graduate school for philosophy. The First book A Vicious Cycle is a story about addiction. I am a recovering alcoholic, but this book is a true story about a relationship I was in while I was two years sober. I was dating someone who was an active emergency room addict. An emergency room addict is someone who scores all their dope from doctors in the emergency room, and I realized I was just as powerless of her as I was over my own addiction. I could not walk away. The point of this book is that the world is the way it is meant to be, and I am the only one that needs to change for the better. The second book The Shadowed Soul is about overcoming mental illness through jnana yoga, or single pointed concentration meditation. I have eight disorders with my brain and I don't fit one stereotype. Most doctors I have seen could not help me. I have been on almost every psych medication and anticonvulsant there is and most have done nothing for me. I was on SSDI for ten years myself. I have my main theory of the mind which I base on neurological testing I had done at UCSF, then I take my mind and show how much I have in common with others. I have a chapter on depression, ADHD, anxiety and PTSD, Schizophrenia and schizoaffective bipolar type, epilepsy and autism. I have aspects of all of them without fitting one stereotype. I have seen doctors my whole life and very few could help me. Today the only medication I am on for my disorders is CBD for my epilepsy, and I work full time as a corporate accountant for hotels. The solution of this book is combining Ancient Vedanta and modern science.