The author is a proud mom of three as well an adept wife and warrior who confronts mental illness face-to-face. During her five-year-long psychological encounter, she became captive to a powerful, demonic spirit that constantly battered her emotions. This mental imprisonment impeded her will to exit as well became an opposition for anyone to enter to offer a lifeline for survival. It was determined by medical diagnosis that her military service as a combat veteran contributed to her immeasurable successes over her twenty-two-year career but was also a major contributor to the demise of her mental and emotional health. Oftentimes, people like the author become subjected to inaccurate sentiments without insight regarding mental illness, all based upon unsubstantiated yet descriptive perceptions surrounding the disorder. The author is an accomplished military officer; an MBA graduate; and now an author. The phrase, ?You don?t look sick? is the connotation that centralizes the theme of the book?s title, ?MI Doesn?t Look Like ME.? No one can say for certain what mental illness looks like, but the author reveals it felt like during some of her darkest days. She depicts mental illness as a relentless, raging storm that never rests. The author recalls that the illness at times seemed to accompany foes with a premeditated intent to destroy her mind, body, and soul. She fought this life-suffocating sentence induced by mental illness while struggling to free her mind. After her mind was freed, her body became unshackled, unleashing fragmented chains and empowering her to write and share this story!