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Imagine hearing real voices critiquing you, harassing you and telling negative things about yourself. What would you do?Delve into the Diaries of Amy, who has schizophrenia. Her Diary entries log the onset of her illness, how she handles her illness, and how she starts to improve herself. Included are tips on how Amy overcame "the voices" and successfully graduated from college and graduate school.
Description This book details a journey from illness to recover. In 1998 Paul Fearne experienced a schizophrenic episode. He decided at the time to keep a journal. He was able to record many of the fascinating delusions that were to afflict him. He experiences some common symptoms of schizophrenia, and records their impact on his life. Interspersed amongst these reflections are a number of other remarks on artists, writers and thinkers. He discussed William Blake, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Goethe, Milton Walt Whitman, Homer, Virgil and many others. There are detail analyses and criticisms of their works, as well discussion of the beauties of nature, and reflections upon the craft of writing, amongst other things. As the diary proceeds the writing gets clearer as the psychosis begins to slowly recede. There is even a relative equanimity that arises in the writing later in the diary as the author's happiness returns. About the Author Paul Fearne was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1975. He is currently undertaking a PhD in Philosophy on schizophrenia at LaTrobe University. He suffers from schizophrenia, having had two major episodes - one in 1998 and the other in 2002. He is currently taking medication and has been healthy for a number of years. Paul has previously completed a Masters degree at the University of Melbourne. He is a published poet and philosopher. He has also previously held to the position of president of the University of Melbourne Philosophy Club.
Diary of a Schizophrenic 2nd Edition by Paul Fearne Pdf
Description This diary shows how recovery is possible. During the first half of the Diary, Fearne is experiencing a whole host of delusions and dysfunctions. His sense of beauty is gone, his sense of pleasure is gone, he feels that light can somehow enter his mind and damage it. But as the diary proceeds, all of his afflictions begin to subside. He starts an odyssey of reading the great classic texts of the western cannon. What's more he starts meeting women! This second edition of the book contains a new preface outlining some of the great things Fearne was to go on and accomplish. He has been ill subsequently, but has never stopped believing in the adventure. About the Author Dr Paul Fearne suffers from schizophrenia, and has done so since 1998. He has completed a PhD on schizophrenia, and his first book, Diary of a Schizophrenic, was launched at the 2010 Melbourne Writers Festival. He regularly appeared on radio, and even on TV a few times. He has launched books at Readings booksellers in Carlton, and Parkville. He co-hosted a radio show on 3CR, exploring mental illness and poetry. Book Extract I wonder if I'll be able to write like I once did. After all that has happened to me and my mind. Will the store of ideas suddenly dry up? I sincerely hope not. For a start I'm not too sure that I like this laptop. The keyboard doesn't seem to suit my style of writing. The sound effects are also getting a little bit on my nerves. Somehow I think that my ability to write my memoirs has left me. It doesn't feel like the flow is there. I guess having you're emotions destroyed is very crippling to the creative process. Anyway, we'll see how I go in my next assignment. I have a feeling it won't be of that B plus standard, which is a shame because it was quite a pleasant surprise to find that mark on my last paper. I hadn't scored a B plus for quite sometime. Oh what am I thinking of, of course I'll get a B plus, I should be aiming for an A after the progression my grades have taken; C, B minus then a B plus. The logical progression is an A. Well enough of this preoccupation with grades. I'm getting the desire back to study and research, but I feel my mind is simply not up to the task any more. Its so frustrating, I just simply can't feel my emotions anymore. There's no sadness, no happiness, no response from my emotions whatsoever. There also seems to be no critical responsiveness from mind. When I read a piece of my work there isn't that critical faculty there anymore, there's just this blank emotionless slate which I peer into. Oh cruel fate, to cast upon one such as myself this burden of living without emotions. How does one live when there is no pleasure in anything! I used to live with a very acute sense of emotion, feeling everything that happened to me with a strong emotional punch. This is more than one person is able to stand.
Bethany Boik shares harrowing tales and the mindset enabling her to survive and thrive despite many horrific experiences with schizoaffective disorder.
This is a short, creative adult non-fiction modern poetry book whose poems were taken from the diary of the author. It is about the author's struggle with schizophrenia and how she coped with mental illness. You can feel these experiences and conflicts in the author's shoes in a relatable way to your own life. Passionate and raw, this writing brings you to the depths of the author's emotions and lets you explore in their world. There is something for everyone in this heartfelt literature.
Diary of a Schizophrenic Poet by Nico K Lawrence Pdf
Delve into the mind of a clinically diagnosed schizophrenic in this gripping autobiographical anthology written in poetic form. The author takes us on a journey of a life lived with mental illness, and all the insights, elucidations (and delusions?) this offers up. Written within a period of psychosis, the book offers an exclusive look into the mind of the "insane", showing the world through the eyes of a schizophrenic whilst exploring many other topics; existentialism; religion; war; speciesism; nationalism; childhood trauma; happiness; sexuality; family; friendship and love - to name but a few. It's good-humoured, emotive, evocative, and eloquently written poetry that grips you from the first page.
A Road Back from Schizophrenia by Arnhild Lauveng Pdf
For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic. Lauveng illuminates her loss of identity, her sense of being controlled from the outside, and her relationship to the voices she heard and her sometimes terrifying hallucinations. Painful recollections of moments of humiliation inflicted by thoughtless medical professionals are juxtaposed with Lauveng’s own understanding of how such patients are outwardly irrational and often violent. She paints a surreal world—sometimes full of terror and sometimes of beauty—in which “the Captain” rules her by the rod and the school’s corridors are filled with wolves. When she was diagnosed with the mental illness, it was emphasized that this was a congenital disease, and that she would have to live with it for the rest of her life. Today, however, she calls herself a “former schizophrenic,” has stopped taking medication for the illness, and currently works as a clinical psychologist. Lauveng, though sometimes critical of mental health care, ultimately attributes her slow journey back to health to the dedicated medical staff who took the time to talk to her and who saw her as a person simply diagnosed with an illness—not the illness incarnate. A powerful memoir for sufferers, their families, and the professionals who care for them.
Divided Minds by Pamela Spiro Wagner,Carolyn Spiro Pdf
A riveting true story of sisters who were identical, until the voices began Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and socially outgoing twin, Pamela. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to suffer the initial symptoms of schizophrenia, hearing disembodied voices that haunted her for years and culminated during her freshman year of college at Brown University where she had her first major breakdown and hospitalization. Pamela's illness allowed Carolyn to enter the spotlight that had for so long been focused on her sister. Exceeding everyone's expectations, Carolyn graduated from Harvard Medical School and forged a successful career in psychiatry. Despite Pamela's estrangement from the rest of her family, the sisters remained very close, "bonded with the twin glue," calling each other several times a week and visiting as frequently as possible. Carolyn continued to believe in the humanity of her sister, not merely in her illness, and Pamela responded. Told in the alternating voices of the sisters, Divided Minds is a heartbreaking account of the far reaches of madness as well as the depths of ambivalence and love between twins. It is a true and unusually frank story of identical twins with very different identities and wildly different experiences of the world around them. It is one of the most compelling histories of two such siblings in the canon of writing on mental illness.
It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity. If so, our treatment of the mentally ill suggests that American society is inhumane: swinging between overintervention and utter neglect, we sometimes force extreme treatments on those who do not want them, and at other times discharge mentally ill patients who do want treatment without providing adequate resources for their care in the community. Focusing on overinterventionist approaches, Refusing Care explores when, if ever, the mentally ill should be treated against their will. Basing her analysis on case and empirical studies, Elyn R. Saks explores dilemmas raised by forced treatment in three contexts—civil commitment (forced hospitalization for noncriminals), medication, and seclusion and restraints. Saks argues that the best way to solve each of these dilemmas is, paradoxically, to be both more protective of individual autonomy and more paternalistic than current law calls for. For instance, while Saks advocates relaxing the standards for first commitment after a psychotic episode, she also would prohibit extreme mechanical restraints (such as tying someone spread-eagled to a bed). Finally, because of the often extreme prejudice against the mentally ill in American society, Saks proposes standards that, as much as possible, should apply equally to non-mentally ill and mentally ill people alike. Mental health professionals, lawyers, disability rights activists, and anyone who wants to learn more about the way the mentally ill are treated—and ought to be treated—in the United States should read Refusing Care.
