Are you struggling with your mental health or are you the caretaker for someone who is? A special book called ‘Breakthrough - the reason mother didn't love me’ is a rare and moving insight into Katerina's childhood lost to mental illness and her personal battle in fighting an old school society in Macedonia to help make her family whole again. Katerina Mitrevska's recollection through raw and unforgiving poetry, captures the pain and ignorance that surrounded her mother's undiagnosed schizophrenia during her formative years. Her hardship to keep the house in order and raise her brother as her mother fought the "voices in her head", Katerina illustrates how the power of love and understanding, was the key to finally changing the mental health care outcomes for her mother Snezana, many years later. Mitrevska's journey through a suspended childhood plunges the reader into her youth as we learn of her "thinking and overthinking,  living in my thoughts", until her years-long entanglement with the question "why", left her with the bitter realisation that ‘My childhood flew by. We talk about Katerina's cry for help, as she navigated the labyrinth of her mother's mental demons, searching for the nurturing parent she so desperately needed her to be. Join us for an eye-opening conversation where we walk you through Katerina's life, we discuss how she managed to move her life to Australia start over & heal from her childhood trauma. If you want to know how she remained hopeful despite tough times, you can check out her inspiring words illustrations or get in touch at;

https://www.instagram.com/katerina.mitrevska/

https://www.katerinamitrevska.com/

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/katerina-mitrevska-author-of-breakthrough-the-reason-mother-didn-t-love-me-part-1

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For information on looking after your mental health contact beyondblue.org.au.

Readers & Listeners seeking further support can contact Lifeline crisis support on 13 11  14, Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467 and Kids Helpline on 1800  55 1800 (for young people aged 5 to 25). 

Embrace Multicultural Mental Health supports people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

You can also access help via

MensLine Australia on 1300 789 978

Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636

Headspace on 1800 650 890

ReachOut at au.reachout.com

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