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This is a MUST READ story, with name dropping all along the way, including Donald's near encounters with Jackie Chan, Pat Benatar, Steve Vai, Brad Gillis, David Grohl, and even Steve Jobs.

"Living With Madness: The Best Ever First-Person Account" is a chilling autobiography by Donald W. Carroll, who suffers from drug-resistant schizophrenia. Carroll, a former IT Engineer, Educator, and Musician, provides his gripping, first-hand account living in a daily battle with a voice in his mind that taunts, disparages, and argues with him relentlessly for hours. Carroll struggles with debilitating delusions, suicidal tendencies, and substance abuse which landed Carroll periodically in jail and in an asylum. With the latest drug treatments failing, Carroll has been left with nothing but his iron will to live a stable and productive life.

"Living With Madness..." is perhaps the best, first-hand account of living with schizophrenia. Donald W. Carroll is a former musician, computer engineer, teacher, and now author! He introduces us to his life ofchronic alcoholism, drug addiction, an erratic path through the U.S. Navy, menial jobs, lost loves, and the Occult. Just as Carroll begins to find his way to a meaningful career in the Information Technology field, his mind is invaded by the Being, an intrusive voice that teases and torments Carroll into a state of delusional madness.

This autobiography is a gripping and uncensored examination of a high-risk lifestyle that lands Carroll in and out of jobs, romances, jail, and mental institutions without any relief from the latest anti-psychotic treatments. This mental disorder affects about 1 in every 100 persons worldwide.

After more than 24 years of trial and tragedy, Carroll has finally managed a peaceful coexistence with his unchecked condition, while achieving a significant degree of success and happiness.

Donald Carroll writes this compelling autobiography to reach out to others currently suffering from schizophrenia, to offer hope for a productive life. This is the autobiography the Oxford Journals' Schizophrenia Bulletin couldn't wait to read!

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Donald Carroll is a native Californian who also spent time in the Philippines, Hawaii, Northern Virginia, Mexico, and now Thailand. As an aspiring rock guitar virtuoso in his youth (all the way to Atlantic Records) he joined the U.S. Navy in 1988, where he spent some time working in a Top-Secret environment as a data processing technician, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

He spent the next ten years studying mysticism, psychology, and magick, and he became a member of such renown magical orders as the Hermetic Society of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley's infamous A. A., the Rosicrucian Order, and he was even invited to join Ordo Templi Orientis. During this time, while his use of drugs and alcohol kept pace, he also experienced numerous out-of-body experiences, incidents of waking within dreams, sleep paralysis, and other more psychic-based achievements using meditation, and yoga. Towards the end of his twenties, he left these studies behind him, but he can still demonstrate a gift that he has with tarot cards today.

By 1997, Donald Carroll was in college being trained as an information technology professional. He was swept up quickly within the trade, and he enjoyed numerous opportunities that then abounded in the Silicon Valley. Within three of years of his entry into the new and booming field of information technology, Donald walked into an opportunity to teach at a technical college. And, over the next five years, he worked both as a senior computer network engineer, while he was also the most popular instructor on campus during the time that he taught both day and night classes.

Also, in 1997, at the age of twenty-eight, while Donald was just beginning his successful trek through the rise and fall of the "dot com" era, he succumbed to full-blown schizophrenia. During the first few years of this new and disturbing illness, Donald continued to work, and succeed, while at the same time he was being haunted and tormented by powerful hallucinations. These hallucinations included not only voices, but also other hallucinations involving the other senses - visual hallucinations, visions, and other hallucinations involving touch, taste, and even smell. During the first several years of his illness, Donald was under the impression that he was living with the voice of God, and that some greater purpose lay connected to this new and sometimes alarming condition a mission that would eventually be revealed. Later, as the hallucinati...