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Being diagnosed with bipolar disorder was like losing my flight plan. It was as if my destination and alternate airports had disappeared. My engines were on fire during the height of my first full-blown manic episode and I was certain that a crash was imminent. An emergency was declared. To my surprise I learned that I had on board with me the love and support of family and friends. In the end I landed safe and sound, just not where I had intended. I was never able to make a career out of flying. Having worked four commercial pilot jobs as a flight instructor and charter pilot, I now know that those years were the beginning of unrecognized signs and symptoms of bipolar disorder. I was too restless to stay at one job long enough to be truly prepared for the next.

Many biographies of people with schizophrenia seem to dwell primarily on the feeling of hopelessness, and they keep expectations for the sufferer's future low. With this autobiography, Mr. Jiang attempts to turn the tables on this litany of sorrow. He shows himself as a result of the miracles that modern medicine can produce. He went from being a basket case to a respected, technologically-savvy medical librarian working at a world-renowned research institution.

#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...

“The most important book about schizophrenia in decades, and perhaps ever…a total game-changer.” —Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind A comprehensive, deeply researched, and highly readable portrait of schizophrenia—its history, its various manifestations, and how today’s...

“Compelling…A bracing work of art and a loving tribute” (Los Angeles Times), this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Sandy Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child, Sandy had been told Bob was “crazy,”...

Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “suffused with emotional depth and intellectual inquiry” (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises) as a writer delves into the tragedy of his mother’s violent death at the hands of...

The debut of an important new literary voice: Marin Sardy's extraordinarily affecting, fiercely intelligent memoir unflinchingly traces the path of the schizophrenia that runs in her family. Against the starkly beautiful backdrop of Anchorage, Alaska, where the author grew up, Marin Sardy weaves...

Malda foi diagnosticada com esquizofrenia e logo foi tida como inapta à convivência social. O ostracismo se sustentou sobre o seu diagnóstico, compreendido como incapacitante. Em uma de suas várias internações, passou a ser atendida por Dante Portofino, um psiquiatra de práticas pouco ortodoxas. Recém-chegado ao Instituto Weingarten, Dante percebe que os pesquisadores dali buscam angariar reconhecimento por meio da escavação da psique humana ao invés de remediar as condições dos internos.

You might think this book is about pain. It is not. It is about the journey of two women who loved Clayton unconditionally. It is a tale of overcoming devastating loss, turning hopelessness into hope, sadness into joy and trauma into healing. It spotlights the magnification of love and a shifting of lives in surprising and unpredictable directions.

Narré en première personne, « Journal d’une crise psychotique », de Douglas Gonçalves, est l’histoire d’un cadre faisant face à une crise psychotique qui le transforme en spectateur de son propre sort, changeant sa vie pour toujours.

Even though understanding the human mind can feel like a jigsaw puzzle, you’ll be given all the proven research and strategies that will easily answer your most tantalizing questions about psychopaths. Uncover the truth behind why these people behave the way they do—dive deep into the mind of a psychopath.

In this personal memoir, my recovery from schizophrenia is told in great detail. Beginning with nightmarish descriptions of ghosts haunting my thoughts to the fear God was dying, my journey to recovery was long and hard-fought. Eventually, as my condition and my faith in God improved, the madness that once occupied my mind began to fade.

Don y Mimi Galvin encarnan como nadie el espíritu ingenuo y entusiasta de los Estados Unidos de su época. Jóvenes y llenos de sueños y ambiciones, el futuro es para ellos un horizonte abierto. Los hijos no tardan en llegar: en 1945 nace Donald, el primero de los doce que tendrá la pareja a lo largo de dos décadas. Atléticos, inteligentes, talentosos, atractivos y felizmente instalados en la idílica casa de Hidden Valley Road, los Galvin se dirían la perfecta familia americana. Hasta que un día, tras una serie de extraños comportamientos, diagnostican esquizofrenia a Donald.

In this mind-twisting tale based on real events, Fendi Jane Hathaway, an individual with schizoaffective disorder, writes down her feelings and what she experiences with mental illness inside a deep, dark diary. Throughout the story, you'll find that schizophrenia isn't what meets the eye. In fact, schizophrenia isn't what people make it at all.

Cuando se trata del Trastorno Límite de la Personalidad, muchas personas se quedan en la oscuridad. Todavía tienen dudas sobre qué es, qué hace que sea tan atractivo iniciar una relación con un persona como eso, o cómo se diferencia en hombres y mujeres.

La esquizofrenia es más común de lo que piensas. Y hay muchos falsos mitos al respecto. Algunas personas es similar al trastorno de personalidad múltiple, pero esta noción está lejos de la verdad. Otros dicen que solo está relacionado con voces o adicciones. Pero hay más que eso.

This memoir focuses on the everyday struggles a human being encounters while constantly hearing voices telling him or her what they should and shouldn’t be doing. Matt, the main character in this book—and the author, Matthew Littlechild—must battle each and every day to survive. Chronic alcoholism and drug-taking—either of which would cause someone without this man's mental health issues to struggle to survive—severely hamper his chances at a normal life. But he is fortunate in that he meets Samantha. She is his savior, Samantha, and he hangs on to her for dear life!

Dresden 1893: Der ehrgeizige Jurist Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber erleidet nach einer beruflichen Beförderung einen Nervenzusammenbruch. Im darauffolgenden stationären Aufenthalt entwirft Schreber eine Erklärungsschrift, welche seine Mündigkeit wiederherstellen soll und liefert damit ein umfangreiches, unmittelbares Zeugnis eines an paranoider Schizophrenie Erkrankten.

"Esquizo" és, més que un audiollibre, un altaveu per dónar la paraula a aquells que normalment no la tenen. L'audiollibre recull quinze testimonis reals d’esquizofrènics i familiars que conviuem amb la malaltia, quinze relats que parlen del rebuig social de la malaltia, del dolor i el neguit que pateixen els que la viuen dia a dia. En Ricard Ruiz Garzón fa una tasca importantíssima per allunyar prejudicis i contribuir a la desaparició de l’estigma que s’associa amb aquesta malaltia i ho fa donant veu als propis personatges d’aquesta història.

One of the sex dummies that my men used to meet their sexual needs (while they wait for me on my marriage list) escapes and ends up in Jesuit hands. The Jesuits give it sentience hoping to woo it to their side. But the sex dummy turned android decides to use its sentience to attain singularity with a goal to transform earth into a paradise for an android obsessed with sexual pleasure.