Sailing on Broken Pieces : Essential Survival Skills for Recovery from Mental Illness / Gary Rhule.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhule, Gary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brothers--Biography.

Brothers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Morgan James Publishing, [2014]

Summary:

Sailing on Broken Pieces is told from the triple perspective of a sibling, caregiver and emergency room doctor who treats people with mental illness in the emergency room and copes with the same concerns at home. It is told through vignettes from the emergency room intertwined with common symptoms of mental illness. The goal of Sailing on Broken Pieces is to eliminate the stigma of mental illness. Oscar winning Best Actress, Jennifer Lawrence said: "It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it." Sailing on Broken Pieces is unique from this triple perspective of ER doctor, sibling and caregiver of a person with mental illness. One in 3 Americans (65 Million) is a family caregiver for persons with mental illness. Sailing on Broken Pieces provides strategies and insights on how to cope while providing support for their family member.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: The Wind Said No

Part I: Reflections in the Water

Chapter 1: The Hardy Boys

Chapter 2: Sandburned

Chapter 3: The Scent of Lilac

Chapter 4: I See Unusual Things

Tip Box 1

Part II: Charting the Course

Chapter 5: Fish Tail Car

Chapter 6: Dylan's Hoop Dream

Chapter 7: Burning the Midnight Oil

Chapter 8: Tree Trunks

Tip Box 2

Part III: Storm Clouds

Chapter 9: Earth and Sky

Chapter 10: You Will Never Know

Chapter 11: A Piece of Cookie

Chapter 12: One Thousand Cows

Tip Box 3

Part IV: Eye of the Storm

Chapter 13: Mission Impossible

Chapter 14: Tell Bret

Chapter 15: A Day for Decision

Chapter 16: Pain but No Gain

Tip Box 4

Part V: Days of Rain

Chapter 17: Dizzy Dalliance

Chapter 18: Resuscitated

Chapter 19: The Open Mouth

Chapter 20: What's up, Doc?

Tip Box 5

Part VI: Sunny Skies

Chapter 21: Unanswered Questions

Chapter 22: Esther's Unlikely Tirade

Chapter 23: A Shore in Sight

Epilogue

Tip Box 6

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61448-943-2

OCLC:

963725436