Schizophrenia For Dummies (For Dummies (Health & Fitness))
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Manufacturer: For Dummies
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780470259276
ISBN: 0470259272
Label: For Dummies
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-10-27
Publisher: For Dummies
Studio: For Dummies
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Practical tools for leading a happy, productive life
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling mental disorder that afflicts one percent of the population, an estimated 2.5 million people in America alone. The firsthand advice in this reassuring guide will empower the families and caregivers of schizophrenia patients to take charge, offering expert advice on identifying the warning signs, choosing the right health professional, understanding currently available drugs and those on the horizon (as well as their side effects), and evaluating traditional and alternative therapies.
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Summary: Stellar book on a tough topic
Comment: I've been a big fan of the "Dummies" series since I picked up my first book on computers decades ago. The Levine's book is the best of the series to date. It takes a very complicated and emotionally charged topic and helps families and patients navigate through the maze of information (or misinformation) often provided by the medical profession. It should be required reading for medical and nursing students as well as anyone close to a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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Summary: Wish I'd Had this book twenty years ago
Comment: If only I had been able to read this book twenty years ago -- then I would have finally understood everything there is to know about schizophrenia. Back then, no one spoke about mental illness or schizophrenia; nor did anyone understood what it meant. As a result, I had no way of knowing that my schizophrenics sister was not making anything up, that she truly had a disease. Had I had access to this wonderful, informative, extraordinary book, I would have been able to help her, my parents wouldn't have felt so guilty (thinking it was their fault), and my family would not have been torn to pieces with grief, guilt, and despair. This is a MUST READ for anyone who wants to understand what it means to be a schizophrenic and how other family members can deal with it.
Margie Goldsmith
Novelist, Essayist, Journalist
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Summary: Schizophrenia For Dummies
Comment: Great book. Very informative and helped a lot to understand this disease. Also learned many coping skills.
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Summary: Long Overdue and Valuable Resource
Comment: After two decades of writing about psychiatric issues for both psychiatrists and consumers, I was particularly pleased to see this long-overdue primer about schizophrenia enter the general marketplace. Surrounded so long by stigma, fear and ignorance, schizophrenia now can be better understood as the common, no-fault, treatable brain disorder it is. This easy-to-understand book authored by a noted medical journalist and her psychiatrist husband will help the general public, patients and their families, journalists, primary-care physicians and others understand the real facts about schizophrenia. Such understanding can reduce the anguish and long period of time, typically eight years, that it takes before symptoms are recognized and treated. The book's accessible and even enjoyable style will be of particular value as a go-to resource for the newly diagnosed and their families as they struggle to come to grips with this disease, and offers comfort, hope and the practical knowledge required to navigate the complexities of treatment. Every clinician should have it handy on their bookshelves, ready to give to patients and their families. I congratulate these two seasoned clinicians and researchers for using their combined decades of expertise to clear up a subject long shrouded in misunderstanding and unnecessary suffering.
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Summary: Complete learning & impeccable reference all-in-one
Comment: A wealth of information that is easy to read and understand.
Love the real life perspectives that not only help the individual but also the family.
Kudos to the authors for a portraying the big picture with the right amount of details to make it sensible.
This is everything you need to know but didn't know to ask!
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