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The ultimate goal of those with a mental disorder and the people who love them is balance: emotional, mental, spiritual, and behavioral. Yet, living with and responding to a mentally ill person often leads to the chaos of a relationship where the rules change, the dynamics are volatile, and the expectations are unanchored.
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"Will the person you love ever get better? Chances are you've grappled with the question. With care and support from their families, people with schizophrenia can and do make vast improvements. Noted therapists Kim Mueser and Susan Gingerich deepen your understanding of the illness and cover a wide range of effective treatments. Based on decades of research and experience, they offer pragmatic suggestions for dealing with depression, psychosis, and...
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This book details the chilling true story of Tommy's six year descent into madness. In Beth's vivid, tell-it-like-it-is style, she explains the terrible realities of raising a mentally ill child and the journey toward treatment that encompassed the lives of not only Tommy, but the entire family.
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"What are the limits of sympathy in dealing with another person's troubles? Where do we draw the line between caring for a loved one, and being swallowed up emotionally by the obligation to do so? Quite simply, what do we owe each other? In this study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one." "Working...
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In the 1960's Mental Hospitals were seen as oppressing people who were "not really ill, just different." As a result these people have gone without needed treatment and make up a large portion of the homeless.
Simply blaming the process of "deinstitutionalization" has been a convenient shorthand to explain away the tragedy of how thousands of mentally ill people were committed to life on the streets. Such a one-dimensional view fails, however, to...
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