In a pitch to revive the economy by cutting medical costs, president-elect Obama plans to computerize the nation's healthcare records in five years. Doing so would ideally improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans, yet what about those of us with SZ or mood disorders or other MIs?
In practice, curious eyes could wander from your... Read more
As the New Year dawns, most of us make resolutions, yet I rarely do. Every year for the past four years I've set goals in areas such as self, career and relationships. I write down these intentions when I'm compelled to do so, often in the late summer going into the early fall-the start of a new school year and the time I do a cleaning out of my... Read more
What's the big deal about treating "first-episode" schizophrenia with drugs? A lot, as it turns out. An Interview with Mary Ann Bruni linked my successful recovery to my mother's courageous action: within twenty-four hours of my breakdown, she drove me to the hospital and I was given Stelazine, which halted the positive symptoms within three... Read more
For this holiday season, I wanted to keep it light and return at the end of December on a serious note, so here now I present an excerpt from my memoir that recounts the bittersweet Christmas after I came home from the hospital in 1987. My beloved Grandpa had died while I was on the Veronica Lane ward.
Slowly, the dark undertow of the... Read more
Would I recommend you give Stalking Irish Madness as a stocking stuffer or holiday gift? You decide. Patrick Tracey's book-part memoir, part documentary-traces the roots of his family's schizophrenia back to the great potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s. You'll be riveted as much by the Irish folklore as well as his account of how this cruel... Read more
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