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Ben behind his voices : one family's journey from the chaos of schizophrenia to hope / Randye Kaye.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaye, Randye.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kaye, Benjamin, 1982---Mental health.
- Kaye, Benjamin.
- Kaye, Randye.
- Kaye, Benjamin, 1982-.
- Paranoid schizophrenia.
- Paranoid schizophrenics--Rehabilitation--New York (State)--New York.
- Paranoid schizophrenics.
- Paranoid schizophrenics--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Schizophrenia, Paranoid.
- Mental health.
- New York City.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Medical Subjects:
- Kaye, Benjamin, 1982-.
- Kaye, Randye.
- Schizophrenia, Paranoid.
- New York City.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ; cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2011.
- Language Note:
- English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The author, Ben's mother, provides an account of his experiences with schizophrenia, describing Ben from his childhood through his turbulent teenage years before his diagnosis, and discussing the struggles and challenges faced by Ben's family in their efforts to provide support to Ben throughout the stages of his illness.
- Contents:
- Part I. Warning signs. Reflections
- Beginnings
- Ben drops out
- There must be a reasonable explanation
- The wailing wall
- The black eye
- Part II. Chaos, trial and error. Reflections
- Frightening thoughts
- Almost arrested
- The last resort
- Psychic vampires
- Diagnosis roulette
- Part III. Dealing with catastrophic events. Reflections
- Almost hospitalized
- Finally, sick enough
- Frozen: hospitalization number three
- Hospitalizations four and five
- Part IV. Recovery and acceptance. Reflections
- He's still in there
- Baby steps to normal: realistic expectations
- Ordinary miracles
- The drum circle
- Relapse and the road back
- You can't reason with mental illness
- Love, the positive "second hit"
- No secrets: fighting stigma
- Never give up hope.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40700-3
- 979-88-8187-486-5
- 9786613099266
- 1-4422-1090-7
- 1-283-09926-8
- 1-4422-1091-5
- 9781442210912
- 1442210915
- OCLC:
- 727836593
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