Mental Health Schizophrenia

All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle and comfort her, and, to Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world. As they grew, however, and as Kait entered adolescence, her personality began to change. She was lashing out emotionally and physically, and losing touch with reality in certain ways.

In this updated second edition, available only as an audiobook, Randye Kaye tells listeners, in the introduction and epilogue, about what happened in the decade after the initial release of Ben Behind His Voices. Yes, Ben is still here, still living real-life "Chutes and Ladders". When we first meet Ben, he's a sweet, intelligent, seemingly well-adjusted youngster. Fast forward to his teenage years and Ben's life has spun out of control. He's swept along by an illness over which he has no control—one that results in homelessness, hospitalizations, and finally a diagnosis.

When someone says they hear voices in their head, they are often thought to be mentally ill. But, as Charles Fernyhough argues in The Voices Within, such voices are better understood as one of the chief hallmarks of human thought. Our inner voices can be self-assured, funny, profound, hesitant, or mean; they can appear in different accents and even in sign language. We all hear them - and we needn't fear them. Indeed, we cannot live without them.

You might think this book is about pain. It is not. It is about the journey of two women who loved Clayton unconditionally. It is a tale of overcoming devastating loss, turning hopelessness into hope, sadness into joy and trauma into healing. It spotlights the magnification of love and a shifting of lives in surprising and unpredictable directions.

Narré en première personne, « Journal d’une crise psychotique », de Douglas Gonçalves, est l’histoire d’un cadre faisant face à une crise psychotique qui le transforme en spectateur de son propre sort, changeant sa vie pour toujours.

In his early 20s, Mindy Greiling's son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after experiencing delusions that demanded he kill his mother. At the time, and for more than a decade after, Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator who struggled, along with her husband, to navigate and improve the state's inadequate mental health system. Fix What You Can is an illuminating and frank account of caring for a person with a mental illness, told by a parent and advocate.

Surviving Schizophrenia chronicles a path where biochemical intervention is not the sole factor relevant to mental illness. Varied "world views" - Christianity, Maori Pacifika lore, or the credo of a New Age, which have influenced myself - demand a broad approach to mental health. Reckless prescription of drugs should not substitute exclusively for alternative therapies.

The debut of an important new literary voice: Marin Sardy's extraordinarily affecting, fiercely intelligent memoir unflinchingly traces the path of the schizophrenia that runs in her family. Against the starkly beautiful backdrop of Anchorage, Alaska, where the author grew up, Marin Sardy weaves a fearless account of the shapeless thief - the schizophrenia - that kept her mother immersed in a world of private delusion and later manifested in her brother, ultimately claiming his life.

Sandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child, Sandy had been told Bob was “crazy”, that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the '60s and '70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than Sandy had been alive, and what little Sandy knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009, Bob mailed Sandy his autobiography.

A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-healthcare crisis in the United States. Dr. Rosenberg gives listeners an inside look at the historical, political, and economic forces that have resulted in the greatest social crisis of the 21st century. The culmination of a seven-year inquiry, Bedlam is not only a rallying cry for change, but also a guidebook for how we move forward with care and compassion, with resources that have never before been compiled.

In the spring of 1994, psychoanalyst-in-training Steven Poser arrived for his clinical internship at one of the last remaining nineteenth-century mental hospitals in New England. Intending to observe and offer compassionate care to the most chronically ill patients, he ended up staying for two years, forming close therapeutic relationships with three female patients suffering from schizophrenia, "Agnes," "Mrs. Lutzky," and "Lucia." Drawing from his clinical diary, Poser presents his encounters with the women in their own words, each speaking in a poetry of her own invention.

Does bipolar disorder occur in children? What are some of the main elements of a bipolar disorder? What is so difficult about diagnosing bipolar disorder? What are possible solutions? These and many other questions will be answered in this book. Aside from this, clinical concepts will be discussed, as well as nutritional resources, the connection to autism, suicidal tendencies, and the overlap of the symptoms in schizophrenia.

The author of this book, Diana Dirkby, is an Australian-born research mathematician who lives with paranoid schizophrenia, a severe brain disorder, as did her mother. The title, “The Overlife,” suggests that a diagnosis of schizophrenia can be the beginning of a new, worthwhile life and not simply the death of the hopes and dreams that preceded the diagnosis.

The author introduces you to the illness, its symptoms, and causes. Stephanie Anne Allen goes on to share her own intimate battle with the devastating mental illness. She then describes exactly what methods, tips, and guidelines she used to cope with and overcome the illness. She provides you with hope, by her own example, that recovery from this mental illness is possible. And to top it all off, Stephanie ends with some very deep inspirational quotes dedicated entirely to those who suffer from schizophrenia.

Don y Mimi Galvin encarnan como nadie el espíritu ingenuo y entusiasta de los Estados Unidos de su época. Jóvenes y llenos de sueños y ambiciones, el futuro es para ellos un horizonte abierto. Los hijos no tardan en llegar: en 1945 nace Donald, el primero de los doce que tendrá la pareja a lo largo de dos décadas. Atléticos, inteligentes, talentosos, atractivos y felizmente instalados en la idílica casa de Hidden Valley Road, los Galvin se dirían la perfecta familia americana. Hasta que un día, tras una serie de extraños comportamientos, diagnostican esquizofrenia a Donald.

Malda foi diagnosticada com esquizofrenia e logo foi tida como inapta à convivência social. O ostracismo se sustentou sobre o seu diagnóstico, compreendido como incapacitante. Em uma de suas várias internações, passou a ser atendida por Dante Portofino, um psiquiatra de práticas pouco ortodoxas. Recém-chegado ao Instituto Weingarten, Dante percebe que os pesquisadores dali buscam angariar reconhecimento por meio da escavação da psique humana ao invés de remediar as condições dos internos.

In this book Travis describes to the listener what living with schizophrenia and autism is like. Follow Travis as he shares about his hallucinations, voices, and delusions. Travis shares how television characters and news anchors talk to him. He thinks they have a special message to deliver to him. Travis also talks about having to punish himself because the voices say he is not a real person.

Dresden 1893: Der ehrgeizige Jurist Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber erleidet nach einer beruflichen Beförderung einen Nervenzusammenbruch. Im darauffolgenden stationären Aufenthalt entwirft Schreber eine Erklärungsschrift, welche seine Mündigkeit wiederherstellen soll und liefert damit ein umfangreiches, unmittelbares Zeugnis eines an paranoider Schizophrenie Erkrankten.

One of the sex dummies that my men used to meet their sexual needs (while they wait for me on my marriage list) escapes and ends up in Jesuit hands. The Jesuits give it sentience hoping to woo it to their side. But the sex dummy turned android decides to use its sentience to attain singularity with a goal to transform earth into a paradise for an android obsessed with sexual pleasure.

Dan Mathews knew that his witty, bawdy 78-year-old mother, Perry, was unable to maintain her fierce independence - so he flew her across the country to Virginia to live with him in an 1870 townhouse badly in need of repairs. But to Dan, a screwdriver is a cocktail not a tool, and he was soon overwhelmed with two fixer-uppers: the house and his mother.