The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
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Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Written By: Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89820092
EAN: 9780446671330
ISBN: 0446671339
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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Editorial Reviews for The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
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The autobiography of a recovered schizophrenic. Lori Schiller was the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit American family who took to the New York streets dressed in rags and lapsed into a world of suicide attempts, hospitalizations, half-way houses, relapses, and constant, withering despair.
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Summary: The Quiet Room
Comment: Descriptions were so detail and vivid that I felt like I had witnessed the whole event.
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Summary: Not even a little quiet.
Comment: This book is touching beyond any words we can summon. She lets it out there and puts it all on the table for all to see. Courageous as it gets.
-Jane Stevens
Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression
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Comment: Lori Schiller has written a riveting account of her descent into schizophrenia, her many years of suffering and her courageous breakthrough. It's an amazing true story that is sure to touch you in many ways.
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Summary: Heartbreaking
Comment: In this riveting memoir, Ms. Schilling recounts in detail her spiraling descent into mental illness, which began in adolescence, at camp, when she first heard the voices that she would fight for the rest of her life. Her heartbreaking narrative about this debilitating disease, schizophrenia, gives us all a compassion for these victims that we may not have had before. Her poignant tale reminds all of us who have our mental health intact just how lucky we really are.
The subject is explored from many angles. Her roommate helplessly stands by, knowing something is wrong but not knowing what to do. Her distraught parents are tortured by the worry that they may have caused this. Her distressed brother worries that the disease may strike him next. The story is told through chapters in the first person written by all those touched by Lori's illness, including hospital notes and a long chapter by Dr. Dollar, one of the two doctors who finally broke through to Lori with extensive therapy and the help of a new experimental medication.
Her courageous battle gives hope to all of us, those who have a battle of their own to wage, as well as those in the life of someone who does. I cried when Doctor Fischer left, and I cried when Lori finally put the hospitals behind her to start a new life on her own, a successful life filled with the love of family and friends.
"At last, my life is my own."
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Summary: Riveting!
Comment: This book helps see into the confused world of mental illness like no other. Wonderful & hopeful!
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