Surviving Schizophrenia: a Family Manual [Paperback]

E. Fuller Torrey (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 478 pages
• Publisher: Harper; Revised Edition edition (1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060962496
• ISBN-13: 978-0060962494
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,502,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Surviving Schizophrenia" a Brilliant and Informative Book!, September 3, 2004

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This review is from: Surviving Schizophrenia: a Family Manual (Paperback)

As a schizophrenia sufferer, I have been healthy from delusions for the past eleven years, but have been unable to hold down a "real job", as it were, for just as long, having only been able to cope with limited voluntary work and supported work instead, due to the illness. I'm well, but my problem is that I don't have much capacity, and the pressure and stress of a real job is too much for me because of my affliction.
So, even though I do a few hours voluntary work, I still get abuse occasionally from one or two people when I socialise in the pub at the weekends.
They don't understand, and with the stigma surrounding mental illness, it's very difficult to explain, even though, with these people, they'd probably given me more abuse if they knew the truth.
I would love to give them a copy of "Surviving Schizohprenia" by E Fuller Torrey, which is a brilliant and informative book that has helped me enormously and made me understand my illness much better, as well as helping to ease a lot of my worries and fears.
Dr Fuller Torrey is doing a great job on his crusade against the ignorance and misunderstanding that surrounds the mentally ill, and should be applauded from the rooftops.
I also hope, soon, to help in this regard, albeit anonamously.
But I just can't praise "Surviving Schizophrenia", or the author, enough!
If you, or someone you know, has this terrible illness, please read this book!
It has been a great help to me.