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    Imaginary Real Friends
    Imaginary Real Friends
    Imaginary Real Friends
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    Imaginary Real Friends

    By Travis Breeding

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    Travis shares the creation of his make-believe world in response to the harsh reality mental illness has dealt him. Travis forms imaginary friendships with real people that are semily famous or with news anchors he sees on television. He talks of his imaginary friendships with real people like the Huntington North girls basketball team and Nicole Briscoe from ESPN Sports Center on the television.

    Travis lives in a world where he has constant visual and auditory hallucinations regularly. He uses the creation of a make-believe world with imaginary friendships with real people to help him fight off the voices and hallucinations on a daily basis. Travis also has his best friend that is a real person that helps him fight off his hallucinations as often as possible. He explains that having imaginary friendships with real people has helped change his life and made it so he did not have to hurt or punish himself at the command of the voices he hears from having schizophrenia.

    Travis has many health issues going on in his life. Currently he is awaiting an appointment with a neurosurgeon to see if they might be able to improve some of his mental and social health symptoms by using a shunt to help drain water off of the brain. He describes how his long-term memory is much better than his short-term memory. He describes a time in which he remembered drawing up plays for the Huntington North girls basketball team to take the last shot and win the game. He can remember the exact details of the play but he often can't remember what he had for dinner last week.

    In this book you will get a personal experience of what it is like to try living with a mental illness and coming up with coping strategies that include using real people to create imaginary friendships to help cope with the mental illness. Travis hopes to one day meet Nicole Briscoe and the 1995-96 Huntington North girls basketball team to thank them for being his friends and helping him through some very difficult times. This book will give the reader valuable insight into what life with Schizophrenia is like.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBreeding Publishing
    Release dateJan 15, 2017
    ISBN9781370867325
    Imaginary Real Friends
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    Travis Breeding

    Travis is an author from Huntington Indiana how enjoys entertaining and educating through words. He enjoys telling a story and taking it from his mind to paper. He has authored several books on autism, mental illness, schizophrenia, and disability issues. He continues to write about those issues but also explores some fiction writing as well. Travis has a loving family and enjoys spending time with friends and family. He loves to play bingo and meet new people. One day Travis hopes to start a family of his own and give them so much love. Travis would like to thank his readers for supporting him on his journey of becoming an author. He could not have done it without you. If you would like to get in touch with Travis please email him at tbreedauthoratgmaildotcom,

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      Imaginary Real Friends - Travis Breeding

      Imaginary Real Friends

      Travis Breeding

      Published by Travis Breeding at Smashwords

      Copyright 2017 Travis Breeding

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      Imaginary Real Friends

      About the Author

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      Imaginary Real Friends

      So much about growing up as a child with a disability meant that I was left to navigate a life of my own without knowing how to properly connect with other people to become a part of the real world. For me it was so hard to find real friends in middle and high school, I spent a lot of time using my imaginary mind to help me cope with some of the things that I was dealing with daily.

      I will never forget when I first realized that I had this ability to escape into imagination and become a part of the make-believe world in which I would feel more connected to than the real world to help me cope with all my disabilities.

      I did not know it at the time but I had autism as a child and went undiagnosed until I was twenty-two years old. Having a diagnosis probably would have helped me a lot with understanding how to connect with the real world but because I had no idea what was wrong with me or who to turn to I just kept going at the imaginary world and trying to make it my real world.

      You might say that I was trying to do the impossible. However, at the time I did not realize that I was trying to do the impossible at all. I did not even realize that I was trying to do anything because my brain was just trying to help me cope with what had been dealt to me in the most natural way even though the brain’s idea of natural would end up being something that seemed completely unnatural.

      It was in the fourth grade when I first realized my ability to create a make-believe world and use it as a coping mechanism. I did not know what I was using it for or why I was creating it but it seemed very interesting to me once I realized my mind was doing that. Now even though I started doing this in the fourth grade this does not mean that I knew what I was doing in the fourth grade. It would take me years upon years of studying my life and looking back on some of the events in my life to realize that I was using a make-believe world to help me cope with having autism.

      I was in fourth grade and I went to school at Andrews Elementary which is in Huntington, Indiana. Meanwhile as I was in fourth grade our school system had the best girls high school basketball team in the state and one of the best in the entire country. The Huntington North Lady Vikings had just won a state title in the 1994-95 season and it was now the task of the team to run the table in the 1995-96 season and repeat as state champions. Everyone in the entire state expected that Huntington North would be able to run the table and indeed repeat as state champions for the

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