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Schizophrenia - Who Cares? - A Father's Story (Paperback)
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Schizophrenia - Who Cares? - A Father's Story (Paperback)
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Loot Price R409
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Better known as a travel writer rather than as a campaigner for
mental health care, the author of the original Rough Guide To
France and The Rough Guide to Paris tells the moving story of his
son's - and thus his own - twenty-year struggle with schizophrenia.
Tim believes passionately that it needed to be told, for the
"outside" world - and he includes many of the professionals in that
- know little of the daily reality of living with schizophrenia. He
dedicates this frank, no-holds-barred account to all those who find
themselves in the same boat, both sufferers and relatives, all of
whom, once this bizarre illness strikes, find themselves thrown
into a chaotic situation that is always bewildering and often as
downright terrifying as it is heartbreaking. His story includes his
dealings with the care services, "a pretty shameful record of
incompetence, buck-passing and lack of communication and
co-ordination" and the mental health charities, whom he has not
spared - "for in their devotion to the sloppy, evasive language of
political correctness, they have dangerously underplayed the
seriousness of real mental illness like schizophrenia."
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