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• FIRST PERSON ACCOUNTS OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND RECOVERY
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction More Than a Diagnosis: First Person Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery
• Motives and Purposes of First Person Accounts
• Emerging Themes
• Definitions and Diagnosis
• Limitations and a Note to Students
• References
• About the Editors
• 1 Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• References
• Schizophrenia
• The Best Medicine
• Recovery as Discovery
• Acknowledgments
• Understanding Health as a Continuum
• Psychiatry and Oppression: A Personal Account of Compulsory Admission and Medical Treatment
• Hearing Voices: A Personal Story
• References
• Powerful Choices: Peer Support and Individualized Medication Self-Determination
• Introduction
• Reclaiming Dreams
• Peer Support as an Evidence-Based Practice
• The Importance of Choices
• The Choice of Medication
• Medication Issues, Peer Support, and Self-Determination
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Schizoaffective Disorder
• Snapshots: The First Symptoms of Psychosis
• June 2002
• August 2002
• September 2002
• October 2002
• Why Having a Mental Illness Is Not Like Having Diabetes
• Hospital Experience
• Attitude of Family and Friends
• The Disease Course
• Treatment
• References
• 2 Mood Disorders
• IntroductIon
• Questions for Reflection
• References
• Depressive Disorders
• Depression: Disease, Loneliness, Social Isolation, Suicide, Negative Thoughts …
• My Confession: My Life Had Come to a Stop
• Willow Weep for Me—A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression
• I Wish I Had Gotten Help Sooner: My Struggle With Postpartum Depression
• My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
• Bipolar Disorders
• Living With the Dragon: The Long Road to Self-Management of Bipolar II
• My Journey Had Truly Begun
• Before Things Get Better They Sometimes Get Worse
• As My Eyes Meet Those of the Dragon It Realises That I Am Going to Kill It and, for the First Time i
• References
• On Madness: A Personal Account of Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder
• What Is It Like to Live With This Condition on a Day-by-Day Basis?
• Random Scribblings on Bipolar Disorder
• 20:20 Hindsight—Monday, November 19, 2007
• Becoming the Ups and Downs—Monday, November 19, 2007
• Dark Winter Days—February 2009
• Stress: Our Worst Enemy—February 2008
• Finding Sense in It All—May 2008
• The Mind’s Sense of Freedom—June 2008
• Consistency is Key—February 2008
• Being Bipolar: Living on Both Sides of the Coin
• 3 Anxiety Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• References
• Panic Disorder
• You Have Anxiety?
• Susan’s Story
• Phobias
• On the Outside Looking In
• Mysophobia
• Food Anxiety
• Other Germs
• Cleaning
• Family and Friends
• Feelings
• How Others Can Help
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD )
• Flux
• Example of the Hand-Washing Dilemma
• Practicing Imperfection
• The Cognitive Maze
• Suspension of Disbelief
• Example of the Rabbit
• Rituals, Routines, and Recovery: Living With OCD
• My Story
• The Big Picture
• “It’ll Be Okay.” How I Kept Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) From Ruining My Life
• “OCD? So, What, Did You Wash Your Hands a Lot?”
• The Episode That Triggered My Decision to Seek Help—Someone’s Bleeding to Death
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD )
• Emotional Triangle
• Panic, Anxiety, PTSD, and My Experiences of Healing Through Multiple Avenues of Psychotherapy
• The Beginning
• Background
• My Experience as a Psychotherapy Patient
• PTSD: The Siege of Symptoms That Bombarded My Life
• Expanding the Therapeutic Terrain
• Concluding Comments
• References
• The Demons of War Are Persistent: A Personal Story of Prolonged PTSD
• 4 Personality Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• Reference
• My Path to Recovery
• A “Classic” Case of Borderline Personality Disorder
• Misconceptions About Borderline Personality Disorder
• How the Disorder Feels
• How Mental Health Professionals Can Help
• Loud in the House of Myself
• 5 Substance-Related Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• Reference
• Goodbye, Johnnie Walker
• Addendum
• Untitled
• A Nurse’s Journey Through Loss, Addiction, and Recovery
• 6 Eating Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• Reference
• Dying by Inches
• Reference
• Big Little
• Binging and Purging to Stay Alive
• Life With an Eating Disorder
• 7 Impulse Control Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• The Numbers of My Obsession
• Endnote
• Memoirs of a Compulsive Firesetter
• Firesetting Behaviors on a Continuum
• Dan’s Story
• In the Beginning
• In the End
• 8 Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• References
• Before It’s Too Late
• Writing
• Alzheimer’s
• Poor Memory: A Case Report
• Past Memory
• Short-Term Memory
• Recommendations for Patients and Therapists
• References
• Parkinson’s: A Patient’s View
• References
• 9 Somatoform Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• Reference
• A Psychosomatic Study of Myself
• Bigorexia: Bodybuilding and Muscle Dysmorphia
• Hypochondria
• 10 Dissociative Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• Coping Strategies
• The Mental Health Physiotherapist
• The Mental Health Occupational Therapist
• My Care Coordinator
• The Psychotherapist
• Conclusion
• Family Talk
• Fractured Mind, One Heart?
• 11 Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• References
• Sexual Pain Disorders
• Vaginismus: The Blessing of Botox
• Paraphilias
• The Armed Robbery Orgasm: A Lovemap Autobiography of Masochism
• Gender Identity Disorders
• A Rose in Bloom
• Dancing With Madness
• An Epiphany
• Dante’s Inferno
• Sword of Damocles
• On the Road
• The Power of Love
• Time for a Good Transgender Story
• The Conformist
• Perceptions of Gender
• Have the Chinese Never Learned to Enjoy?
• Active Negotiations
• Reconnecting Body and Spirit
• Is There a Chinese Way?
• A New Condition
• Now
• 12 Sleep Disorders
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• References
• An Insomniac’s Slant on Sleep
• My Story of Narcolepsy
• 13 Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence
• Introduction
• Questions for Reflection
• References
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders
• Communication Impairment
• Alien: A Story of Asperger’s Syndrome
• Communication and Social Interaction
• Rules and Routines
• Sensory Defensiveness
• The Loop
• Patterns and Analysis
• The God I Know
• My Job
• Marriage
• What Asperger’s Means to My Life
• The Experience of Infantile Autism
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• The Only Me That We Have Ever Known
• Tic Disorders
• A Tourette Story
• An Interruption of Regular Programming
• Searching for Answers
• Crisis
• Index