Schizophrenia

ElizaMarie

Words on Bathroom Walls | Julia Walton

One of the #5StarReads that I was lucky enough to stumble upon in September :)

#SeptemberReCap

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ElizaMarie

Words on Bathroom Walls | Julia Walton

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Finished this listen 🎧 while running errands and of course getting a Happy Meal 🍔🍟

It was really good :) I need to find the screen version 📺

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@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3mo

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ElizaMarie

Words on Bathroom Walls | Julia Walton

My #BookSpin pick for September. Found it is Audio off of Libby. Already can tell this is going to be good. I love the whole “reading of a journal” format when listening to audios :)

#BookToScreen

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Karisimo

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family | Robert Kolker

This is a fascinating nonfiction read that bounces between the history of schizophrenia and the Galvin family experience #aboutabook #abigfamily

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs Amazing book 👏🏻👏🏻 3mo

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CatLass007

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness | Elyn R. Saks

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#ReadAway2024 Elyn Saks‘ memoir is compelling. Her history of mental illness began as a child with delusions, although it wasn‘t recognized at the time. As she grew older she developed anorexia. When she participated in an immersive summer abroad, she experimented with marijuana and also tried it once or twice when she returned home. Feeling guilty, she confessed her brief experimentation to her parents, who strongly overreacted, (cont)⬇️

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CatLass007 assuming she was a drug addict and forcing her to attend every day after school and on weekends a rather suspect treatment program. Their insistence that all drugs were bad, even taking aspirin for a headache, and that using any kind of medication meant she was weak and was not using enough self-control. At Vanderbilt University she began experiencing hallucinations but hid them from everyone and managed to graduate first in her class. (cont)⬇️ 5mo

CatLass007 Next she attended Oxford University where she earned her doctorate in Philosophy. It was while she was at Oxford that she had her first psychotic break. She sought medical attention but was insistent that she would not, could not, take drugs. She was part of a daily outpatient program where she participated in groups. Eventually she did begin to take prescribed antidepressants and participating in intensive daily psychoanalysis. But she (cont)⬇️ 5mo

CatLass007 eventually stopped taking the medication. This was to be a continuing pattern throughout her life, taking prescribed medication until she felt like she was exerting enough self-control to stop taking medication. Eventually she completed her studies and returned to the US to study law at Yale. She suffered another psychotic break but at Yale Medical, the treatment she received was brutal. She was forced into restraints, injected with (cont)⬇️ 5mo

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CatLass007 anti-psychotics and doctors informed the University that she had to be withdrawn from school for the semester. The rights of the patient in the UK were far superior to the rights of the patient in the US. She eventually earned her JD from Yale and took an adjunct position in Law at a small school in New England. She applied for tenure track positions at over 40 universities and was hired at the University of Southern California, her first (cont)⬇️ 5mo

CatLass007 choice. Eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia, later amended to schizoaffective disorder because of her concurrent depression, she taught classes, published papers, and had a book outline in her portfolio which she presented in her bid for tenure. She achieved tenure and continues to teach and publish. She attempted on many occasions throughout her treatment to wean herself from medication so that she would be in control, not the (cont)⬇️ 5mo

CatLass007 medicine. After decades she finally was able to admit to herself that she had a mental illness and would need to be on medication for the rest of her life. I believe that her denial of the necessity of medication was caused by two factors: the drug treatment program in which she was forced to participate, and her own hubris. For the majority of her life she believed she was too intelligent to have a mental illness. I witnessed the (cont)⬇️ 5mo

CatLass007 same behavior in my mother‘s younger brother. He was an MD and he didn‘t need Lithium. His intelligence combined with his arrogance caused the delusion that he didn‘t need to be medicated. If you or anyone you know has a mental illness, I encourage you to read this book. (edited) 5mo

DieAReader 📚Stacked❤️‍🔥Sounds like a great read! You might also enjoy my current read😏 there‘s a MAX, 4 episode show available as of today about it too.

HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD.

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CatLass007 @DieAReader Thanks for the rec. This sounds familiar to me. 5mo

DieAReader @CatLass007 🤓Absolutely! It was published in 2020 so, you may have already read it😏 I‘m a little behind🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ 5mo

CatLass007 @DieAReader No, I haven‘t read it. But I‘ve read about it. 5mo

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MrsMalaprop

Tell Me I'm Here | Anne Deveson

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This book. Once I started, I could not put it down. Anne Deveson writes about her son Jonathan‘s lived experience of schizophrenia, focusing on the impact it had on her and the family. Deeply moving, tragic and devastating. Absolutely outstanding and essential reading for anyone wanting to better understand chronic mental health issues. Vale Anne Deveson (and her daughter, writer Georgia Blain).

Rissreads I‘m so glad it was as good as you hoped! 7mo

CarolynM 😢 7mo

Jeg I read this when it was first published. A memorable book for me. For One who doesn‘t usually remember books. 7mo

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MrsMalaprop

Tell Me I'm Here | Anne Deveson

Had one of those blissful days with @Rissreads yesterday where we met up at the Elizabeth‘s second hand book warehouse, browsed and rummaged, then followed it up with a decadent lunch. This is my little haul 📚. I was so happy to find the tagged book & can‘t wait to read it.

Rissreads It was a fabulous day as always! 🧡 8mo

BarbaraBB How nice ❤️ 8mo

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease | Jonathan M. Metzl

#bookspin The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

#DoubleSpin Let The Record Show: A Political History of Act Up

2 very important books about activism and society in the US. I am excited to get to both of them.

Thanks @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 13mo

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Blueberry

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family | Robert Kolker

"A brother and sister walk out of their house together, through the patio door that opens out from the family kitchen and into their backyard.

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@ShyBookOwl

ShyBookOwl I sense a lot of tension in that line! 1y

Blueberry @shybookowl you'ld need a machete to cut through the tension in this book. 1y

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