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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454055903321

Autore

Snyder Kurt

Titolo

Me, myself, and them [[electronic resource] ] : a firsthand account of one young person's experience with schizophrenia / / Kurt Snyder ; with Raquel E. Gur and Linda Wasmer Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-37485-7

9786611374853

0-19-804251-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Collana

The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands' adolescent mental health initiative

Altri autori (Persone)

GurRaquel E

AndrewsLinda Wasmer

Disciplina

616.89/80092

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Soggetti

Schizophrenics - United States

Schizophrenia in adolescence - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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