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Dynamic Authors, Gripping Stories – already in print |
Among the scores of visitors to the Treatment Advocacy Center exhibit booth at NAMI's recent annual conference were writers with moving first-person accounts they’ve told in books and essays.
In Possessed Mentalities (iUniverse Inc.), Maxene Obenschain Kleir talks about the tragic murder of one of her two daughters with schizophrenia by the other. The surviving daughter, who has since died, contributed a chapter in the book, which Dr. E. Fuller Torrey calls “brave” and recommends to “all families with a seriously ill family member.” Susan Inman's book, After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity (Bridgeross Communications), is the heart-wrenching tale of a mother's struggle to get help for her daughter in Canada's mental health system. Susan traces the onset and progress of her daughter's disease as well as the realities faced by family members who desperately seek treatment for their loved ones. Dr. Torrey has called the book "...one of the best accounts I have read of serious mental illness as told by a mother." Another dynamic and resourceful “survival mom” is Dottie McKee. Dottie shares her experiences as the mother of a son with schizophrenia in “Surviving My Son’s Mental Illness,” an essay in the collection Dancing Through Life With Guts, Grace & Gusto (Morgan James Publishing). Dottie’s essay “left me breathless,” our advocate Aileen Kroll said after reading it.
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