Experiences of psychosis - website

From healthtalkonline.org:

This module is about people’s experiences of psychosis. Many of the people we interviewed had, at some point in their lives, received a diagnosis of schizophrenia. However there were a number of people we spoke to who had never received this diagnosis but who had experienced psychosis i.e. hearing or seeing things or holding unusual beliefs which other people don’t see or share. We interviewed 34 people (31 people with direct experience and three carers) about their experiences.

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I’m Here, Mom

I understand the game we’re playing. It’s how we keep from talking about the present, trading stories about when I was 10 years old and she was still whole.

By Anish Majumdar

For the entire story from Little India, the largest Indian publication in the United States, click here.

Peer-Professional First-Person Account: Schizophrenia From the Inside—Phenomenology and the Integration of Causes and Meanings

Click here for a free PDF of Peter K. Chadwick's 2007 article in Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Schizophrenia takes a daughter away

Even a loving family with ample financial resources is powerless against the disease.

An well-written article in the December 29th issue of the Los Angeles Times describes the heart-wrenching story of a family dealing with a daughter living with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and drug addiction.

Accompanying the article are are numerous photographs and a Flash audio presentation.

To read the entire article, click here.

To access a series of articles entitled Breakdown: A Times Special Report, click here.

Photograph by Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times

Elyn Saks: A Scholar's Memoir of Schizophrenia

Fresh Air from WHYY, August 7, 2007

From National Public Radio:

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In The Center Cannot Hold, lawyer and psychiatry professor Elyn R. Saks chronicles her own struggle with schizophrenia. The battle began with early symptoms at age 8 and has continued throughout her life; she had her first full-blown episodes during her terms at Oxford and Yale.

Saks, who has for years controlled her condition with daily medication and therapy, is an expert in the field of mental-health law, and teaches at the University of Southern California.

For information on the book, click here and here.

For an October 6th newspaper article, click here.

Listen to the Wind

A Journey in Schizophrenia

A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book are donated to the Schizophrenia Scoiety of Nova Scotia. To order Listen to the Wind, please click here.

From the Breton Books website:

A rare and fascinating book, this is Mary Ellen Tramble’s haunting, tender autobiography of her life with schizophrenia. With the power and detail of a novel, and laced with her small, strong poems, it is, as well, an extraordinary and moving work of art. “Listen to the Wind” displays the tense and terrifying sentences, the sudden self-mocking and degradation, the grand insights that take Tramble (and us) high on the ferris wheel of emotions—and then toss us overboard for the plunge [a person living with schizophrenia] knows only too well. In “Listen to the Wind,” Mary Ellen Tramble has made of her struggle a lasting piece of extraordinary writing. We can only be grateful for her determination to record, and her courage and generosity to share. “A monument to the tenacity of the human spirit in its struggle to face mysterious terrors, maintain hope and avoid despair.” — Sheldon Currie, author of “The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum” "For all of the pain and fear in ‘Listen to the Wind,’ there is also great love and beauty.” — Patrick F. Walsh, editor and author of “The History of Antigonish”

176pages . $14.95 . ISBN 1-895415-56-X . Breton Books