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Anika Muhammad’s whole life is wrapped up in her battle with paranoid schizophrenia. Shocked to discover her wedding never actually happened, she relapses into a chaotic world of inner turmoil. When she’s institutionalized against her will, she feels devastated and completely alone.

Anika Muhammad struggles to trust men. But after meeting a handsome playa in her business course, she unexpectedly falls head over heels. Yet she can’t forgive his once-wandering ways and is paralyzed by paranoia that he must be cheating. Seeking something better, Anika gravitates toward an attractive artist whose religious beliefs open her up to a new spiritual world. But some part of her still wants to marry her smooth-talking ladies’ man, and her desperate choices are driving her to the edge of sanity.

In 2003, Swiyyah Woodard's world shattered with two words: paranoid schizophrenia. Fresh out of a university with her Psychology degree, she faced the ultimate irony - becoming a patient of the very field she'd studied. The diagnosis that doctors called "the most debilitating mental illness known to man" threatened to define her entire future.