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Growing Up with a Schizophrenic Mother

Author : Margaret J. Brown
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480300
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up with a Schizophrenic Mother written by Margaret J. Brown and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An estimated two to three million people in the United States today were raised by a schizophrenic parent. Brown and Roberts offer a unique book based on interviews with over forty adult children of mothers diagnosed as schizophrenic. Such topics as the isolation their family felt, their chaotic home environments, their present relationships with their mothers, and the lost potential of mother and child are covered. Their stories are fascinating and provide important information to both the mental health community and the lay public. The offspring have been described as having higher rates of "increased aggressivity" and "sibling conflict," but often their circumstances strengthened these children and contributed to artistic and creative talents, resiliency, and high achievements. The authors provide an overview of schizophrenia, behaviors of the affected parent, and the marital relationship of the patient and her non-schizophrenic spouse. As adults, the respondents now share their grievances about the psychological community--what they needed and did not get. Brown and Roberts then present suggestions for treatment of affected children aimed at psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and health care providers.

Daughters of Madness

Author : Susan L. Nathiel Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313080771
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Madness written by Susan L. Nathiel Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June was 9 years old when she came home from school and her schizophrenic mother met her at the door, angrily demanding to know, Who the hell are you? What are you doing in my house? Tess's mother would wait outside church, then scream at family friends as they emerged, accusing them of spying and plotting to kill her. Five-year-old Tess and her 7-year-old brother would cry and beg their mother to take them home as onlookers stared. These are just two of the stories among dozens gathered for this book. The children, now adults, grew up with mentally ill mothers at a time when mental illness was even more stigmatizing than it is today. They are what Nathiel calls the daughters of madness, and their young lives were lived on shaky ground. Telling someone that there's mental illness in her family, and watching the reaction is not for the faint-hearted, the therapist says, quoting another's research. Nathiel adds, Telling them it is your mother who's mentally ill certainly ups the ante. A veteran therapist with 35 years experience, Nathiel takes us into this traumatic world—each of her chanpters covering a major developmental period for the daughter of a mentally ill mother—and then explains how these now-adult daughters faced and coped with their mothers' illness. While the stories of these daughters are central to the book, Nathiel also offers her professional insights into exactly how maternal impairment affects infants, children, and adolescents. Women, significantly more than men, are often diagnosed with serious mental illness after they become parents. So what effect does a mentally ill mother have on a growing child, teenager or adult daughter, who looks to her not only for the deepest and most abiding love, but also a sense of what the world is all about? Nathiel also makes accessible the latest research on interpersonal neurobiology, attachment, and the way a child's brain and mind develop in the contest of that relationship.

My Mother's Keeper

Author : Tara E. Holley
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780380723027
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book My Mother's Keeper written by Tara E. Holley and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated from her mother at an early age, Tara Elgin Holley became her mother's legal guardian at age 16 and set about trying to rescue the blonde fairy princess she remembered from the shambling street person her mother had become. An inspiring story of one woman's struggle to struggle through the pain to reach a better understanding of her mother, herself and a devastating mental illness.

Growing Up With a Mentally Ill Mom

Author : Brian Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up With a Mentally Ill Mom written by Brian Williams and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing up, I was constantly on edge. I had a mentally ill mom, but I was too young to understand that back then. What I saw was a parent who both loved and hated me. I never knew, waking up each morning, whether my mother would embrace me with a hug and say, "How did you sleep, baby?" Or glare at me from across the kitchen counter as though she didn't recognize who I was. For many years, I hid my mother's diagnosis of schizophrenia. I thought to myself, 'No one will ever understand the special relationship I have with my mentally ill mother.' However, like many other mental illnesses, the more I educated myself about it, the less terrifying it was to speak openly about it." - Brian Williams This book looks at the impact of schizophrenia on familial relationships from the perspective of a child living with a mother who has been diagnosed with the disorder. Through storytelling, readers will come to understand how schizophrenia develops and the many ways it can affect family life. Included in the book are practical tips and strategies to help family members and friends who may know someone living with schizophrenia. The message of the book is one of hope: You can live a prosperous and meaningful life having a relative or parent with mental illness.

Hidden Valley Road

Author : Robert Kolker
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385543778
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Valley Road written by Robert Kolker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. "Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness." —Oprah Winfrey Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.

Tastes Like War

Author : Grace M. Cho
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1952177952
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Tastes Like War written by Grace M. Cho and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the 2022 Asian/Pacific American Award in Literature A TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021 This evocative memoir of food and family history is "somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... [and] a potent personal history" (Shelf Awareness). Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her mother’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her parent’s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her mother’s multiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her—but also the things that kept her alive. “An exquisite commemoration and a potent reclamation.” —Booklist (starred review) “A wrenching, powerful account of the long-term effects of the immigrant experience.” —Kirkus Reviews

Saving Millie

Author : Tina Kotulski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977911516
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Saving Millie written by Tina Kotulski and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Tina Kotulski, daughter of a mentally ill mother, surviving the bizarre landscape of schizophrenia came at a price. Her traumatic childhood, overshadowed by her mother's unpredictable and often dangerous behavior, led Tina to attempt suicide as an adolescent. Consequently separated from her mother, she remained ?invisible?, unaware of the vast number of Daughters and Sons who have shared similar experiences Unlike other books of its type, Tina calls for the urgent transformation of the current standard of psychiatric care, not only for afflicted individuals, but also for families and communities. An advocate for families with mental illness, Tina is confident this story is not solely her own. It's the story of millions who have grown up in unpredictable situations and survived despite the odds. She brings hope to those enduring the ordeal of mental illness.

My Parent's Keeper

Author : Eva Marian Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book My Parent's Keeper written by Eva Marian Brown and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many adult children of mentally ill parents share similar problems óf guilt over having left home, poor self-esteem, lack of confidence, and inability to express emotions. This guide helps you to cope with guilt, bolster, self-esteem, and deepen intimacy.

Rescuing Patty Hearst

Author : Virginia Holman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743258452
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Rescuing Patty Hearst written by Virginia Holman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, one year after Patty Hearst and her captors robbed Hibernia National Bank, a second kidnapping took place far from the glare of the headlines. Virginia Holman's mother, in the thrall of psychosis, spirited her two daughters to a cottage on the Virginia Peninsula, painted the windows black, and set up the house as a MASH unit for a secret war. A war that never came. The family -- captive to her mother's schizophrenia and a legal system that refused to intervene -- remained there for more than three years. "What sets this book apart," the Hartford Courant observed, "is Virginia's voice...brave, smart, tough." Reviewers nationwide have praised Holman's "riveting," "endearing," and "wryly humorous" story of a young girl caught in the whirlwind of madness -- a girl who chooses a brainwashed heiress as her role model. Holman's memoir vividly and brilliantly evokes the interior worlds of the sane and the insane and the delicate membrane in between. An essential exploration of identity, captivity, and love, Rescuing Patty Hearst will inspire readers' faith in the resilience of one family's spirit to survive and thrive even in the direst of circumstances.

Children at Risk for Schizophrenia

Author : Norman F. Watt
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521248884
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Children at Risk for Schizophrenia written by Norman F. Watt and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-11-30 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Memory Palace

Author : Mira Bartok
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439183325
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Memory Palace written by Mira Bartok and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous memoir about the 17 year estrangement of the author and her homeless schizophrenic mother, and their reunion.

Love Is All That Makes Sense

Author : Sakeenah Francis
Publisher : Bridgeross Communications
ISBN 13 : 1927637007
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Love Is All That Makes Sense written by Sakeenah Francis and published by Bridgeross Communications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sakeenah Francis describes her life as a Cinderella story in reverse. She grew up in a well-respected, middle-class African American family. She went to college, was homecoming queen, married, began a career and had children. Then, schizophrenia struck and she lost everything. She went from homecoming queen to being homeless and institutionalized. Sakeenah Francis tells her daughter about her darkest moments of living with schizophrenia in a series of letters that chronicle the first time she heard voices in her head, her hospitalizations, her struggle to parent, and her arduous path to long-term recovery. Both shaken and moved by her mother's revealing letters, Anika faces the haunting effects her mother's mental illness had on her. After years of keeping the secret about her mother's illness, Anika breaks her silence voicing what it was like to grow up with a mother with a severe mental illness.She describes the emotional roller coaster created by her mother's bouts of recovery and how this impacted her well into adulthood. Though Sakeenah lost many bouts in her early struggles with schizophrenia, she kept striving. Through it all, there was love which at times was the only thing that made sense to Sakeenah and Anika. Love gave them the strength and resilience to heal and piece together that which schizophrenia had torn apart in our lives. This sobering story carries a message of hope that will be inspiring to people affected by a severe mental illness and the web of people connected to them.

Mental Hell: How My Mother's Schizophrenia Became My Gift

Author : Nancy Thomason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781986101547
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Mental Hell: How My Mother's Schizophrenia Became My Gift written by Nancy Thomason and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Thomason lived with a mother who was paranoid schizophrenic, a diagnosis known only after she was institutionalized. Until then, no one talked about it. Not the police who visited often. Not Nancy's friends who were busy being teenagers. Not her school teachers and counselors, who wondered what was going on. Not the social workers who found a place for her and her brother to live. No one had word for what her mother left behind. Except hell.

The Daughter of a Schizophrenic Mother and a Narcissistic Father

Author : Susanne Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Daughter of a Schizophrenic Mother and a Narcissistic Father written by Susanne Austin and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story spans from rural Germany to New York City. It is about a little girl growing up in an unstable environment. In a desperate attempt to escape her cage of fear and shame, she makes some gut wrenching decisions as a teenager. This is a gripping tale that could only come from life itself.

Everything Is Fine

Author : Vince Granata
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982133457
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Everything Is Fine written by Vince Granata and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granata was a thousand miles from home when he received shocking news that his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home. Devastated by the grief of losing his mother, Granata was also consumed by the act itself, so incomprehensible that it overshadows every happy memory of life growing up in a seemingly idyllic middle-class family. He decides to examine the disease that irrecoverably changed his family's destiny and piece together his brother's story. In the painstaking process of recovering the image of his remarkable mother and salvaging the love for his brother as Tim faces trial for their mother's murder, Granata provides a powerful and reaffirming portrait of loss and forgiveness. -- adapted from jacket

Children of Parents with Mental Illness 2

Author : Vicki Cowling
Publisher : ACER Press
ISBN 13 : 1417516348
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Children of Parents with Mental Illness 2 written by Vicki Cowling and published by ACER Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children of Parents with Mental Illness 2 looks at the insights and experiences of children and adults who have lived or grown up with parents with a mental illness.

Divided Minds

Author : Pamela Spiro Wagner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312320652
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Divided Minds written by Pamela Spiro Wagner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the stories of a pair of identical twin sisters, a schizophrenic and a psychiatrist, in an account that traces the deterioration of the favored sister into mental illness, and the other's emergence from her troubled sibling's shadow.