The Quiet Room Book

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The quiet room book.

A well written and enjoyable read overall. Lori schiller s memoir the quiet room. By lori schiller amanda bennett. I remember her well and fondly.

The quiet room held special fascination for me because i was one of he mental health workers on lori s unit who participated in her restraints. The quiet room schiller lori bennett amanda download b ok. A journey out of the torment of madness 288. The quiet room is the story of lori schiller a young jewish woman who suffers from schizophrenia and her attempts to cope with the disease.

The story is unusual not only because it is genuine but because schiller reveals in great detail the state of her psychology throughout the course of her illness from its inception at age seventeen to finally bringing it under manageable control when. A journey out of the torment of madness grants its readers a fleeting vivid glimpse into the reality of living with a serious mental illness. Previous review as someone who works in the social service sector i have seen how isolating living with a mental illness can be. A journey out of the torment of madness is a 1994 memoir that chronicles the years long struggle of lori schilling a bright promising high achieving jewish woman born to affluent parents and afflicted with schizophrenia ultimately schilling will emerge triumphant from her journey which includes many stints both voluntarily and involuntarily in mental hospitals.

The quiet room was one of those books. Though even as a first hand witness to her sufferings at the hospital her book revealed so many more dimensions of her experience that were entirely invisible yet. It is a raw and unforgettable memoir about mental illness.