Mendez-Negrete, Josie. <br/><br/>
Life on Hold  living with schizophrenia   
 A life on hold   
Josie Mendez-Negrete. 
 - Albuquerque  University of New Mexico Press  2015 
 - xvii, 273 pages :  illustrations ; Paperback  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826340566 0826340563 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014042185 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Mendez-Negrete, Josie.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Schizophrenics--Family relationships--United States.<br/>Parents of mentally ill children--United States--Biography.<br/>Children
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC514  / .M436 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.8980092 Men   12 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WM 203  / M538 2015