Hidden Lives

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781926972985

<p>In this groundbreaking collection, well-known and cutting-edge authors bring to light life with mental illness. These evocative essays, by writers who either suffer from or have close family members diagnosed with mental illness or a developmental disorder, aim to break down the stigma that surrounds one of the most devastating of human tribulations. The writers recount their experiences with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, clinical depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and dissociative identity disorder. What does it feel like to be psychotic? What sorts of thoughts go through your mind while you are killing yourself? How does a mother go on after her schizophrenic son throws himself into an unfinished construction site? The anthology drills to the core of compassion and disappointment&#8212;transcending hope and sometimes finding beauty in insanity.</p><p>With a foreword by physician and bestselling author Gabor Maté, MD, <i>Hidden Lives</i> gives readers a place to turn and communicates not despair but courage.</p>