Schizophrenia Articles
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- When Truth Lies: A Journey with Schizophrenia
The year is 1969, and Kevin has just graduated from high school. His classmates look forward to dates, parties, and college. Not Kevin. He sees Satan bugs crawl in and out of his body. He ...
- Increasing Treatment Adherence in Schizophrenia
"Adherence is one of the most important issues in illness management,” according to Dawn I. Velligan, ...
- Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
Ben Behind His Voices is an inspirational story about a family’s experience with schizophrenia. The focus of Randye Kaye’s book is on her son Ben, who struggled for many years with mental health and substance ...
- Premature Death Rates Rising in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Patients
People with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a substantially raised risk of premature death, research warns, and the risk ...
- What’s My Zip Code?
When I first saw this book "What's My Zip Code?" by David Stringer, it was in download format and I wondered what exactly it would be about because it seemed like an odd title to ...
- The Memory Palace: A Memoir
We children of schizophrenics are the great secret-keepers, the ones who don’t want you to think anything is wrong (p. 5).
Author Mira Bartok has encapsulated in this statement her life as the daughter of mentally ...
- After Schizophrenia
I was not sure what to expect when I first opened Margaret Hawkins’ After Schizophrenia. Memoirs about people suffering from mental illness are quite common these days and I was interested to see if the ...
- What a Life Can Be
In “What a Life Can Be: One Therapist’s Take on Schizo-Affective Disorder,” Carolyn Dobbins, PhD offers an insightful look into the evolution of a successful mental health professional with a challenging diagnosis: schizo-affective disorder. In an ...
- Demons in the Age of Light: A Memoir of Psychosis and Recovery
From the very first paragraph of Whitney Robinson's first book, Demons in the Age of Light: A Memoir of Psychosis and Recovery, her way with words is not only apparent, but glaringly so. Reading further, ...
- Silent Voices
The book Silent Voices is an intriguing story about how a family dealt with mental illness and how a lack of support from professionals caused a family to endure tragedy that changed their lives forever. ...
- How a Bully Is Made
The short- and long-term harm done to bullying victims has received much attention lately. The complex web of factors which go into ...
- Schizophrenia and Genetics: Research Update
Fortunately, we’ve come a long way since the theory that less-than-affectionate mothers cause schizophrenia. Today, it’s widely accepted that a complex interplay ...
- The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry
The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by UK-based journalist Jon Ronson (famous for the book-turned-movie The Men Who Stare at Goats) starts out with a mystery. Someone has sent a bunch of ...
- Madness Made Plain: Henry’s Demons
Henry’s Demons is what madness is all about. Patrick Cockburn, war correspondent for The Independent in London, writes this book about another war -- the war against schizophrenia within his own son, Henry. Moreover, Henry ...
- New Pilot Program Tries to Help the Mentally Ill Quit Smoking
I was shocked when I read this statistic in Melinda’s Beck top-notch column, “Health Journal,” in the Wall Street Journal:
Nearly half of all the ...
- Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness
Before beginning a review of Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness, this reviewer feels that it is necessary to disclose that it is the very first graphic novel she has ever read. Keeping ...
- My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery from Mental Illness
Schizophrenia affects one percent of the world population. It is indiscriminate of race, gender, status, and wealth. Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is not multiple personalities -- that’s Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder). ...
- The Health Impact of Regular Marijuana Use
A recent global review of marijuana (cannabis) suggests it has been used by one in 25 adults aged 15 to 64 ...
- Schizophrenia for Dummies
Learning that a loved one has been diagnosed with schizophrenia can be extremely stressful and confusing. There can be many questions about the nature of the illness, treatment possibilities, and the prospects for recovery. Many ...
- After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity
As mental illness becomes less stigmatized, many individuals are coming out and sharing their experiences with a variety of disorders. The majority of books published on the topic are personal accounts of their struggles. Susan ...
- Approaching Neverland: A Memoir of Epic Tragedy & Happily Ever After
In the 1960s, when author Peggy Kennedy grew up, mental illness was a family secret. It was whispered about, handed off to hospitals, restrained, subjected to electroshock therapy and slews of sedatives and sent back ...
- Pregnancy and Psychotropic Medications
Pregnancy can be a challenging time for women with long-term mental disorders. While mental illness is common among women of childbearing age, it ...
- Illuminating 13 Myths of Schizophrenia
It’s safe to say that no mental disorder is more shrouded in mystery, misunderstanding and fear than schizophrenia. “The modern-day equivalent of leprosy” is how renowned research psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., refers to schizophrenia ...
- Living with Schizophrenia
“Your daughter has schizophrenia,” I told the woman.
“Oh, my God, anything but that,” she replied. “Why couldn’t she have leukemia or some other ...
- Schizophrenia Fact Sheet
Speak the word “schizophrenia” and you’ll likely receive reactions peppered with misunderstanding and fear. The disorder is largely shrouded in myths, stereotypes and stigma. For instance, many equate schizophrenia with violence and criminals. But schizophrenia ...
