My Mental Health Story

<p>Rand Floyd was born in 1972 at Bethesda Naval Hospital and spent his early childhood in San Diego before moving to Reston Virginia where he was raised. The son of a U.S. Navy officer and a schoolteacher-turned-entrepreneur Floyd grew up in a household grounded in service discipline and ambition.</p><p></p><p>He earned undergraduate degrees in biomedical engineering electrical engineering and biology from Durham University where he also completed medical school. Following a one-year internship in St. Louis he completed his diagnostic radiology residency and neuroradiology fellowship at the Siemens Institute of Radiology.</p><p></p><p>Floyd built a long medical career while raising three children with his wife of 26 years. After their divorce in 2024 and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic he began confronting the mental health challenges that had long gone unspoken. Writing became a path to clarity healing and understanding.</p><p></p><p>In this autobiography Rand Floyd offers a deeply personal account of family identity and the hidden cost of silence. Through honest storytelling he sheds light on the emotional complexities of mental illness-and what it means to survive and grow through it.</p>