Last night I ordered a book online, one of the most well known books on sz. I first looked to see if there was any books on sza but there isn’t many, so a lot of sza’s read books on sz and bipolar/depression to get the full picture. So I’m doing that too.
Looking forward to getting it delivered to me!
A few years ago I went through a long wellness phase (8 months) and donated all my sz books and got rid of my sz/sza notes collection in a file. Because I thought I’d never get ill again. Bad mistake!! I did and I still regret it to this day that I threw them out. Stupid thing to do!
Now I’m trying to build up my collection again. This book I’m ordering sounds good, I’ve heard a lot of good said about it.
I have that book, it’s pretty good. It’s even got a section where the author lists a bunch of popular movies/books featuring schizophrenic characters or stories.
It’s like a good introduction but you’ve got to realise I was diagnosed and thought I had multiple personality disorder. It just is what it is and served a purpose so I think we all should read it but it’s written from a provider of mental health and not a sufferers perspective.
You’ve got to realise there wasn’t many critical works about mental illness for its time so it’s a worthwhle work but I’m not sure whether it’s changed since then but maybe it has.