Diagnosis: Schizophrenia. (A book)

This book really helped me out very much I recommend people get this book!
I downloaded this book to my computer via scanning it and then converting it into a pdf file, I then went to a flip book maker website and downloaded it there so you can go to this website right here > http://fliphtml5.com/smow/rpry
The pdf is much larger but the website made the pages very small but it can be fixed by viewing the book in full screen mode and using the magnify glass tool.
Or you can download the PDF and view it/ read it, in pdf format on your computer.
Enjoy! and hope it helps!

Here is more info about the book:

Diagnosis: Schizophrenia A Comprehensive Resource for Consumers, Families, and Helping Professionals
Rachel Miller and Susan E. Mason
In this book, thirty-five young, recently diagnosed patients speak about schizophrenia and the process of recovery, while two specialists illuminate the medical science, psychoeducation, and therapeutic needs of those coping with the illness, as well as access to medical benefits and community resources. A remarkably inclusive guide, the volume informs patients, families, friends, and professionals, detailing the possible causes of schizophrenia, medications and side effects, the functioning of the brain, and the value of rehabilitation and other services.
In their dialogues, participants confront shame, stigma, substance use, and relapse issues and the necessity of healthy eating, safe sex practices, and coping skills during recovery. Clinicians elaborate on the symptoms of schizophrenia, such as violent and suicidal thoughts, delusions, hallucinations, memory and concentration problems, trouble getting motivated or organized, and anxiety and mood disorders. Adopting an uplifting tone of manageability, the participants, authors, and clinicians of this volume offer more than advice—they prescribe hope.
About the Author

Rachel Miller is a social worker for the National Institute of Mental Health, Child Psychiatry Branch, where she works with children with psychotic disorders and their families. From 1995 to 2007, she was the senior social worker for the first-episode of schizophrenia continuous care team at Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York.

Susan E. Mason is professor of social work and sociology at Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work, where she teaches courses on psychiatric disorders. As a social work coordinator at Zucker Hillside Hospital, she managed clinical trials for people diagnosed with schizophrenia. She is a fellow at the New York Academy of Medicine and a senior education specialist and fellow for the New York State Social Work Education Consortium.

Thanks lillybird, I haven't read this one but will do so now.

One of the comments was that the docs never told her that she was sick in the hospital and it would have been easier to understand had they done so and I really have to agree with that. It's something I've never understood. I didn't know I was sick until the meds started working and I figured it out myself.

I don't really like their take on meds as treating a chemical imbalance as it's not that simple and similarly they say you'll have to stay on meds forever---also not that simple. There is a lot of newer research out there.

Thanks for this!
I will definitely have to read this one.
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MissLabarinth

I had a similar experience. When I was in the hospital the first three times nobody told me what was going on or why I needed to take meds in the first place. It made it all the harder for me to be med compliant because at the time nobody was telling me why I even had to take them! Thankfully I got sent to a better hospital later that year and it was explained to me, I still didn't believe I was sick, but knowing why they were giving me medications(they believed I was sick), helped me to be far less annoyed with the whole process even though I did not agree with their conclusions at the time. I had zero insight about having schizophrenia until 2013 and it's still an in and out thing... Mostly out.

Thanks for sharing the book recommendation Lillybird as I have not read this one yet either!

Well they probably told me within a month but I was already stable by that point and taking the meds but I originally thought the meds were because I wasn't sleeping which seroquel can be used for. Then later I disclosed my hallucinations and that I wanted meds for that (although I had actually been talking about them all along I just thought the doctor was 2 different men, haha). Anyway he just briefly explained that if I would just take the meds I had it would fix that....oops, another week of needless hallucination because they didn't bother to tell me the meds were for what they were actually for and not for sleep.

The bolded part, exactly. They didn't tell me what these drugs were actually for until I got sent to a more competent psychiatric hospital. That was... awful... Yeah.

I find it interesting that you had insight while psychotic, I never do(I only know if something is more "wrong" than usual if someone in my support system says so and I will still believe that I'm fine and my experiences are real but I can acknowledge at least that not everyone perceives the same things I do)... I am always amazed when I see posts by people who had/have some insight into their psychosis because I'm just not one of those people who has much insight. I have a little bit when I am as stable as I'll ever get, but I still think what I'm experiencing is very much real it's just that other people can't perceive it and so they call me psychotic... I don't know if that makes sense but that's the shortened version of how I think about it nowadays...

Oh I may have phrased that like I had insight but I didn't have much----also I think the first couple of doses of seroquel pulled me out of it a bit.

Yeah, I don't have much insight at all. Like I know I have the diagnosis of Schizophrenia and I know what it means, I've read several books about it and even more articles about it... but I cannot apply that knowledge to myself...<--- I like the dots thing, a lot...

yes they are fun...I have trouble writing without them now though....

Yeah it helps mea something somehow I don't know why but it does... And yeah it's fun lol so random but I like it a lot......

The dots "thing", otherwise known as ellipsis.

I find myself using them quite a lot too, they are rather convenient!

I am also guilty of using dots a lot...it's habitual!

I'm definitely going to have to read this book! Thanks!

Oh hey...I already skimmed through this book in the library last month (speed reading). Haha

What I do really like about the book is the chapter where they tell you what people are doing now and the success they've had since recovery

ive read this book. its very interesting. I read it awhile back.