Eva Ysbeck

Eva Ysbeck
Miami, United States
IG: Anquìn(Süd)
My name is Eva Ysbeck and I’d like to be on the cover Haiti Open Magazine, because being Haitian is not just my identity but within the identity, hence the culture, I was able to gather a sense of self. I’ve overcomed a myriad of “mental illnesses” from manic depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, just to mention a few of the clinically diagnosed psychosis. Through conformity of the culture of America, I was losing my core self. It caused for an identity disassociation and through knowledge of self and deeper study of my heritage, I realized I wasn’t what was classified as crazy but was rather going through spiritual warfare, which would then lead to a spiritual awakening. I was able to overcome this adversity, not just through family support, mainly my my mother but learning my culture and the spiritual aspects which I was so easily able to identify. Since then I’ve been an advocate for mental health, as I hope all beings who may face a challenge such as this may overcome it. I believe this can be done starting with the path of knowledge of self. Since then I’ve written poetry and published on YouTube in addition to other videos which I always bring a sense of a