The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia. I'm over halfway through it now, and from what I can gather (I tend to forget things right after I read them), it's got a lot of helpful stuff. I'm reading it first due to paranoia (I've read some similar books which were good at the beginning but then became a bit...eugh) and then I think my mom is going to read it, and my boyfriend. At least I hope she reads it, because I certainly won't remember everything it says due to my memory issues.

It has an entire chapter on setting household rules and boundaries, and another on communication. Then there's a chapter each on how to deal with positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. Also has a chapter on how to avoid relapses and how to spot the warning signs...which leads me to believe that I'm heading for one at the moment, so that chapter is going to be VERY helpful, even if we only use the worksheets in it. It also actually talks about persistent symptoms, which was very helpful for me. My persistent psychotic symptoms usually include infrequent hallucinations, -slight- delusions, and some paranoia, but after reading about sz in general from this book, I'm less worried that I was misdiagnosed, or that I'm 'faking it' or something because I'm not -constantly- having strong positive symptoms, because my negative and cognitive symptoms more than make up for that. And I -am- very good with taking my meds, so it makes sense that I wouldn't be constantly seeing things like I used to.

Sorry for the rambling, I'm just really pleased with this book. Got it for $9 at the used book store while spending time with my aunt, but it has 4.5 starts with 21 reviews on Amazon, so...lucky find!