Schizophrenia 100 Questions & Answers 100 Questions & Answers About Schizophrenia: Painful Minds
by: Lynn E Delisi MD
Jones and Bartlett Publishers International

Approximately one percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their life-time. This chronic, severe mental illness can be devastating for patients and their family and friends. Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient with schizophrenia, or a friend or relative of someone suffering from this mental illness, this book offers help.

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Relative Stranger
by: Mary Loudon
Canongate Books, March 2006

"Relative Stranger" is the riveting story of Mary Loudon's search for her dead sister, whom she had not seen for the last twelve years of her life. An explicit account of the devastation that schizophrenia can visit upon a person and their family, it will leave no reader unaffected. Asking more questions than it answers, "Relative Stranger" offers a profound and uncompromising challenge to the ways in which we think about one another.

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Saving Samantha
by: Samantha Weaver
Hay House Inc (17 April 2006)

Samantha Weaver is an extraordinary young woman surviving a dysfunctional childhood and the paralysis of the clinical depression that trapped her throughout her youth. Written as a first person narrative, Samantha Weaver describes the agonies and neglect of her childhood and her fight to escape the depression that pushed her to the brink of suicide.

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Living With The Black Dog
by: Caroline Carr
White Ladder Press 2007

Caroline Carr passes on advice advice and support from her own personal experience on how to cope if you are living with a partner who is depressed - how to look after yourself and the rest of the family, how to support your depressed partner and where to go to for help.

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