Life on Hold
by Mendez-Negrete, Josie.
Published by : University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque) Physical details: xvii, 273 pages : illustrations ; Paperback 23 cm ISBN:9780826340566; 0826340563.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 600 - 699 | 616.8980092 Men (Browse shelf) | Available | 116548 |
Includes bibliographical references.
It's All Around Us, We Don't See It -- Mindful Engagement -- A Rat and a Motel: Looking for Love -- Giving It All: Still Trying -- Voices and Lessons: Schizophrenia Shows Up Unexpectedly -- Smoking Mirrors: Fractured Realities -- Looking Back and Beyond -- Voices and Recollections -- Specter of Himself: Life Slides Off -- Foreign Context: Schizophrenic Trip -- Delusions and Misperceptions -- Inner Voices: Holding On to Myself -- Unintended Disclosures: Voices Speak -- Homeboy Remembers: No One's to Blame -- Self-Medication: Hiding from Help -- Urban Upbringing: Running from Self -- Stories Are Life -- With Family Tales, Loneliness Goes Away -- Bed-Wetting and Past Lives -- Seeking for Silence: At Rope's End -- Vermin and Other Things -- Creating Family from Scratch: Found the One -- Acting the Part: Psychotic Performance -- Starving the Demons -- Memories and Loneliness -- Sometimes Death Is the Only Option -- TV Programs Inside: Voices Alive -- At Another Time, I Would Have Been Don Quixote -- Reality Is Imagined -- Imagination Begets Life -- Drugging It to Normal -- Board-and-Care Warehousing -- Running Away to Mental Illness -- The Genius Within -- Talking Wishes and Repressed Delusions -- Right Under Your Nose -- Still Hoping for a Better Life -- Fears and Mental Illness.
"Her powerful account is the first memoir by a Mexican American author to share the devastation and hope a family experiences in dealing with this mental illness. Mendez-Negrete depicts the evolution of the disease from her perspective as a parent and by relating Tito's own narrative, illuminating the inadequacies of the US mental health system and the added burdens of addiction and blame."
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