From Library Journal
Citing a recent university study, the author states "over half of the disabled commit suicide in the first few years of their new lives." Surviving, or learning to live, with a new handicap is a side of the disabled world that is rarely discussed. Written with humor and realism, CripZen is a survival text for anyone facing a new world of rehabilitation specialists, nurses, and frightened family members. Milam, who has been disabled for over 40 years, defines "CripZen" as a time when you no longer own your own body. The most intimate functions must all be performed for you. Milam discusses having sex, coping with depression and anger, finding psychological help, and using such spiritual means of survival as meditation. Reading this pithy and honest book, TABs (temporarily able-bodied) will get a taste of how the disabled survive and hopefully use their insights toward creating a more compassionate world. For all collections.
- Emily Ferren, Carroll Cty. P.L., Westminster, Md.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Emily Ferren, Carroll Cty. P.L., Westminster, Md.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Scientific American
CripZen is funny, wise and elegantly written. No one, disabled or not, should miss it...
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