This is an instruction manual written by a "senior patient" to those who live with the disease. The book collects the personal experiences of the author and fellow patients, taking readers to the "world of mental patients" to find out. The author uses sincere, kind and delicate writing to tell the real experience of illness, and also tells people how to live actively with the disease.
This book collects the detailed accounts of patients with depression, schizophrenia, and personality disorders about their illness experiences, and more deeply explores the issues that patients need to spend time facing and overcoming in real life. For example, what should you pay attention to when you go to a psychiatrist for the first time, how to confess your illness to your relatives and friends, how to treat medications, how to effectively talk to doctors and formulate treatment strategies, how to deal with work, study, finance, love issues, etc. With such a thoughtful guide, the world of mental patients will no longer be cold and lonely.
Reader comments
This book resonated with me, it was like a thoughtful guide that gave me a deeper understanding of the world of mental illness. I like the reasoning in the book, and her experience reminded me of a friend of mine. My friend went through similar struggles but eventually came out on top with the support of family and friends. This book made me understand that we should give mental patients more understanding and care instead of ridicule and discrimination. It also made me appreciate the people around me more because you never know what they might be going through.
There's a lot of sympathy there.
A very good book that does not provide particularly useless advice. It will teach us how to understand the world of mentally ill people and how people with illnesses can deal with and control themselves.
This book resonated with me, it was like a thoughtful guide that gave me a deeper understanding of the world of mental illness. I like the reasoning in the book, and her experience reminded me of a friend of mine. My friend went through similar struggles but eventually came out on top with the support of family and friends. This book made me understand that we should give mental patients more understanding and care instead of ridicule and discrimination. It also made me appreciate the people around me more because you never know what they might be going through.
There's a lot of sympathy there.
A very good book that does not provide particularly useless advice. It will teach us how to understand the world of mentally ill people and how people with illnesses can deal with and control themselves.