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Me, myself, and them : a firsthand account of one young person's experience with schizophrenia / Kurt Snyder ; with Raquel E. Gur and Linda Wasmer Andrews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snyder, Kurt.
- Series:
- Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands' adolescent mental health initiative.
- The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands' adolescent mental health initiative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Snyder, Kurt--Mental health.
- Snyder, Kurt.
- Schizophrenics--United States--Biography.
- Schizophrenics.
- Schizophrenia in adolescence--United States.
- Schizophrenia in adolescence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars were following him, or that strangers wanted to harm him. Kurt's mind had been hijacked by schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that typically strikes during the late teen or young adult years. In Me, Myself, and Them, Kurt, now an adult, looks back from the vantage point of recovery and eloquently
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface; One: A Fragmented Mind: Overview of Schizophrenia; Two: First Encounters With Them: Symptoms and Paranoia; Three: In the Grip of Them: Losing Touch With Reality; Four: Naming and Facing the Enemy: Diagnosis and Treatment; Five: Beating the Enemy: Recovery from Schizophrenia; Six: Putting the Pieces Back Together: My Life Today; Frequently Asked Questions; Glossary; Resources; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- "The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-37485-7
- 9786611374853
- 0-19-804251-5
- OCLC:
- 476243126
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