Download or read book The Essays of an Ex Paranoid Schizophrenic written by Milo S. Miles and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essays of an Ex Paranoid Schizophrenic written by Milo M. Miles and published by Chipmunka Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description These works illustrate the difference between the view commonly promoted by the gutter press and the personal reality for me. They show that violence can be absent from a sufferer's behaviour while thoughts promoting love, harmony, truth and peace are evident, leading to positive activities appreciated by those lucky enough to witness and benefit from them. A sense of humour is shown to be of paramount importance, which, together with good- humour and forgiveness, blesses everyone. It needs to be said that the stories are somewhat poetic and require concentration. They need to be imbibed slowly and thoughtfully, like an old whisky. But, unlike liquor, after spending some time on them one may become enlightened rather than befuddled. About the Author I was born in Hampshire in summer 1951 to dysfunctional parents. My maternal grandmother thought in 1930 that she wanted her recently deceased son to have died as she didn't realize that she could want him to have not died. My mother copied her and later married my father who had issues over his own mother's death that happened when he was 11 years old. My dead uncle's existence was kept a secret from me until 1998, in addition my paternal grandmother was never talked about until then briefly. In the 1950's sensing that my maternal grandmother and mother thought they wanted someone to have died, I was afraid it was me that was the subject of these thoughts and, scared of being killed, decided I'd commit suicide as at least then I'd have control of the time, place and particular cause of my death. I deteriorated from there until 1978 when I exhibited paranoid behaviour and first entered a psychiatric hospital, as I came to blame my parents for real crimes committed in the '60's and '70's, that they were innocent of. Being placed on Redeptin depot injection, I've continued on a depot injection ever since though, for the past 24 years it has been Modecate medication. I have undergone person-centred counselling for 13 years and, since the family secrets were divulged in October 1998, have more rapidly, under the circumstances, recovered to the extent were my medication is being reduced in amount, at the moment being 12.5mg. of Modecate fortnightly and diminishing. The form this recovery has taken has been implicit in replacing old, contemporaneous, explanations for historic and current phenomena taking place with more correct, accurate and truthful reasoning, based upon established facts. Motivation was stimulated by the very unpleasant symptoms of schizophrenia which I wanted to end. I harnessed this motivation with a personal philosophy which I created, a sort of "moral code" to live by. This, together with a belief in forgiveness, led to activities e.g. working in a " halfway house" for the past 14 years and pursuing Karaoke singing and also writing, which increase my self-esteem and therefore my strength to recover.
Download or read book The Previous Essays of a Former Paranoid Schizophrenic written by Milo S. Miles and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Schizophrenic s Life written by Frank Zippo and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book I Me and Us written by Ganesh N. Rajan and published by Westland. This book was released on 2015 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What insights can an ex-schizophrenic share with anyone at all? While there are many books assuring formulae to win and techniques to succeed, this is not one of them. I, Me and Us does not promise anything miraculous. It o ers new knowledge and skills to help create, discover and unleash a personal sense of sanity, success and wellness. Insights to help acquire such a personal sense emerged in the course of the author's recovery from schizophrenia. Ganesh N. Rajan's rst book aims to resolve the aberrations that mental illness may cause, and awaken a sense of purpose in the here and now, for both the 'normal' and a icted."
Download or read book Paranoia Contentment written by John C. Hampsey and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hybrid in both content and style, Paranoia and Contentment is a bold and original investigation into Western intellectual history.
Download or read book Campbell s Psychiatric Dictionary written by Robert Jean Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines words and concepts currently used in psychiatry. Incorporates new terms and diagnostic criteria on DSM-IV as well as terms from the WHO levicons on mental disorders and on alcoholism and other substance dependency that will accompany ICD-10.
Download or read book Adrift written by Nicki Adams and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in London between 1973 and 1983, Adrift is a compelling true story portraying the way a husband's mental illness tragically destroys a happy marriage. It examines the agonising dilemma faced by his wife struggling to make sense of his baffling condition yet concerned for their young children and her own safety.
Download or read book Losing Dad Paranoid Schizophrenia written by Amanda LaPera and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No drugs. No alcohol. So, how does a fifty-three-year-old develop schizophrenia? That's the question puzzling Joseph's family when his mind descends into madness, filled with grandiose delusions and paranoia. He traverses several continents as a self-proclaimed prophet of God. Then he disappears.His wife and three kids race to find answers before he slips away forever. Their biggest fear-he will die a faceless stranger on the streets. Alone. Winner of a Benjamin Franklin Silver Award in the category of psychology, Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope is a compelling true story told through multiple perspectives-the children, spouse, and patient; it offers a rare glimpse into a world that will either feel hauntingly familiar or shocking. The Foreword written by Xavier Amador, Ph.D., Founder, LEAP Institute, Author, I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! (Vida Press 2012) explains the neurological condition of anosognosia; provided supplemental materials include a list of resources; discussion of mental health laws; exclusive author and family member interviews; as well as reading guide questions useful for book clubs, classroom discussion, case study, or professional education for those in medical, mental health, law enforcement, political, and legal fields to better understand the societal and psychological impacts of mental illness, both as experienced by family caregivers and the community. Ideal for Advanced Topics in Psychopathology books portraying lived experiences. Severe mental illness affects one in seventeen and can develop inside any mind at any time. It impacts the entire family.
Download or read book Life Writing and Schizophrenia written by Mary Elene Wood and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you write your life story when readers expect you not to make sense? How do you write a case history that makes sense when, face to face with schizophrenia, your ability to tell a diagnostic story begins to fall apart? This book examines work in several genres of life writing–autobiography, memoir, case history, autobiographical fiction–focused either on what it means to live with schizophrenia or what it means to understand and ‘treat’ people who have received that diagnosis. Challenging the romanticized connection between literature and madness, Life Writing and Schizophrenia explores how writers who hear voices and experience delusions write their identities into narrative, despite popular and medical representations of schizophrenia as chaos, violence, and incoherence. The study juxtaposes these narratives to case histories by clinicians writing their encounters with those diagnosed with schizophrenia, encounters that call their own narrative authority and coherence into question. Mary Wood is the author of The Writing on the Wall: Women’s Autobiography and the Asylum (University of Illinois Press, 1994) and has published articles on autobiography, case history, literature and psychiatry, and narrative ethics in Narrative, British Journal of Medical Ethics, Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, and American Literary Realism. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Oregon.
Download or read book Under Cover of Demons written by Geula Salomonova and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the life story of Geula Salomonova. It is based on real-life events. Geula is ill with the mental disorder called paranoid schizophrenia. The story is told from her point of view. This means that many events like hallucinations may sound like fiction, but they are real. Nothing is fictional. There are a lot of medical books and other materials on schizophrenia, but not much has been said from firsthand experience. Those who are sick will never tell you their tale. This is because they are not coherent and not in touch with their surroundings most of the time. Thus, their point of view and experience are kept secret. Geula, who passed through the usual psychotic experiences, had the good fortune of overcoming them and being able to tell her story. However, although the act of writing of this book was not easy, Geula decided to make the effort to finish it and share it with you. The book can be seen as the memoirs of a woman who has been haunted by Satan and demons. The whole story takes place through various countries and from the age of fifteen to thirty-six. The names of the characters have been changed to protect their identity and privacy. From this point on, I will narrate as Geula. Seven years have passed since the events of this story took place. The inspiration for writing this book was from reading Anita Moorjani's Dying to Be Me. It narrates her life story and tells about a woman dying from cancer but eventually coming back to life. Thus, I decided to tell you about what had happened in my life.
Download or read book Ex centric Writing written by Annalisa Pes and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concern with identity and belonging, with place/dis-placement is a major feature of postcolonial literature and the theme of alienation cannot but be “topical” in the literatures of the countries that have experienced the cultural shock and bereavement, and the physical and psychic trauma of colonial invasion. The purpose of this volume is to qualify the difference one is faced with when a postcolonial ex-centric text is addressed, by collecting essays concerned with writers from Southern Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, the Indian subcontinent and Asian diaspora(s). While giving contextual specifics their due, it shows how the theme of alienation, when perceived through the anamorphic lens of madness, is magnified and charged with an excruciatingly questioning and destabilizing power, laying bare political as well as existential and moral urges. From the ex-centric, broadly exilic position, it is the ideology and practice of colonialism that demand to be rubricated as psychopathology. More broadly, as these essays highlight, in fiction the mad character’s ex-centric vision is a continuous warning against the temptation to believe in those discourses that pass themselves off as reflecting the given, “natural”, order of things.
Download or read book Schizophrenia Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Schizophrenias written by Esmé Weijun Wang and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Book Review Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that. In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford and the literary world, she would find herself floored by an overwhelming terror that 'spread like blood', or convinced that she was dead, or that her friends were robots, or spiders were eating holes in her brain. What happens when your whole conception of yourself is turned upside down? When you're aware of what is occurring to you, but unable to do anything about it? Written with immediacy and unflinching honesty, this visceral and moving book is Wang's story, as she steps both inside and outside of her condition to bring it to light. Following her own diagnosis and the many manifestations of schizophrenia in her life, she ranges over everything from how we label mental illness to her own use of fashion and make-up to present herself as high-functioning, from the failures of the higher education system to how factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease compounded her experiences. Wang's analytical, intelligent eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with haunting personal narrative. The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core and provides unique insight into a condition long misdiagnosed and much misunderstood.
Download or read book Touching Feeling written by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of essays examining theories of affect and how they relate to issues of performance and performativity./div
Download or read book Schizophrenia Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychosis written by Jozef Corveleyn and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days a book on psychosis composed entirely of psychoanalytic contributions is a rarity. It can create surprise that, in what some have called "the decade of the brain," scholars on psychoanalysis, psychiatry and psychology still continue to develop a project of understanding and explaining psychosis from a phenomenological and psychodynamic perspective. And yet such a project not only continues to exist in spite of the dominance of the neuro-biological model, but elaborates itself self-consciously in contradistinction to and even as a corrective to this model. The contributors to this publication share the following concern: "The present-day biologisation and neurologisation of psychiatry has dangerously de-emphasized the concern with the individual suffering soul, with the psyche in psychiatry. But if this means a gain in the scientific status of psychiatry, it is at the same time a loss for patients and practitioners alike."Most of the contributions made to this volume build globally on the ideas of De Waelhens, known for his studies in phenomenology on Heidegger and Merlau-Ponty, as well as for his phenomenological and psychoanalytical research in psychosis. The limits of phenomenology, as formulated by De Waelhens in the last chapter of his La philosophie et les experiences naturelles (1961), incited him to broaden the scope of his perspective; to unravel the basic existential structures to Dasein it is necessary to study human existence in its vulnerability, and it is exactly this vulnerability that breaks through in phenomena such as schizophrenia and paranoia.
