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| Title | : | The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness |
| Author | : | Lori Schiller |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1996 by Grand Central Publishing (first published 1994) |
| Categories | : | Psychology. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Health. Mental Health. Mental Illness |
Lori Schiller
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 4.04 | 7408 Users | 347 Reviews
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At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia. She began an ordeal of hospitalizations, halfway houses, relapses, more suicide attempts, and constant, withering despair. But against all odds, she survived. Now in this personal account, she tells how she did it, taking us not only into her own shattered world, but drawing on the words of the doctors who treated her and family members who suffered with her. In this new edition, Lori Schiller recounts the dramatic years following the original publication -- a period involving addiction, relapse, and ultimately, love and recovery. Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, THE QUIET ROOM is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage.
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| Original Title: | The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness |
| ISBN: | 0446671339 (ISBN13: 9780446671330) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.04 From 7408 Users | 347 ReviewsColumn Containing Books The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
A fascinating account of a woman born into an ambitious family, intelligent, accepted to an Ivy League university, who finds herself disturbed by Voices and experiencing wild mood swings. Her description of what goes on inside her head gives insight into the incredible challenges involved with living with schizophrenia. She survives the disbelief/denial of her illness by her family and herself, several hopitalizations, and brain-numbing medications, to finally find a medication which allows herThis was a very hard book to read. Sometimes I wondered if Lori was making up a lot of it, but then again I have never known anyone personally with this disease. The torture her mind put her through is just incredible.I didn't have a problem with others writing chapters of it, though. It gave more perspective and their voices of what she went through are important.I admire the fact that Lori was finally able to become independent in her early 30's and get married at 42. She is a public speaker
I only had a few titles to choose from when I looked to borrow audio tapes at the tutoring center and I'm very glad that I chose this one. Lori Schiller traces the course of her once normal life that suddenly became dominated by the voices, hallucinations, depression, and other debilitating symptoms of schizophrenia. Her prose is rarely striking or poetic but that only highlights the horror of her experiences. Quiet Room is the illuminating and arresting autobiography by a woman who has learned
Re-read: Nov 14/18 Instead of reading new books, I have been trying to return to old books. Sometimes a book captivates you, but you go through it so quickly that you cannot absorb it in its entirety. The Quiet Room was one of those books. It is a raw and unforgettable memoir about mental illness. A well-written and enjoyable read overall. Previous Review As someone who works in the social service sector, I have seen how isolating living with a mental illness can be. It is why books like
This was a very interesting read, a real-life account of a young girl who struggles with mental illness. By 17 it beings to escalate and later she is diagnosed with schizophrenia. I appreciated the different chapters written by different people in her life, her mother, father, siblings, doctors, etc. Its important to note this book was written in 1994, I would be interested in reading more about current medical procedures for patients like Lori.
This book was (I imagine heavily) co-written, and as a result, it doesn't pack the emotional punch of books such as The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Girl, Interrupted, or Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir.I was also annoyed by the way the book was framed as a story of personal triumph and courage (to quote the book's jacket copy). Obviously, Lori Schiller was extremely lucky to have to the emotional and financial support she needed to forge a life where, in her words, it is I who
A very good book from a person who has experienced the ravages of severe mental illness first-hand. As a person who has experienced paranoid-schizophrenia second-hand through my father, I can say that this book captures the realities of schizophrenia at its best and its worst. My father personally knows Lori Schiller and says she is an amazing woman, though anybody reading this book can see this to be true. A definite read for anybody interested in abnormal psychology or a great story about
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