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I am not sick I don't need help |  | Author: Xavier Amador
Publisher: Vida Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 34478
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 168
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0967718929
Dewey Decimal Number: 362
EAN: 9780967718927
ASIN: 0967718929
Publication Date: May 10, 2007
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About 50% of all people with schizophrenia and manic-depression do not understand that they are ill and refuse treatment. Whether you are a family member or a therapist, in this book you will find hope in what the new research is revealing about the problem of poor insight into illness. Prepare to be surprised and to have new hope. There is much you can do to conquer denial.
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 Learn to speak to someone effectively with a brain disorder November 16, 2009
H. Hollman (Rochester, NY)
A good instructional book on how to speak to someone differently who has a brain disorder to help them see the need for medication and therapy. Mirrors what I've been learning in a NAMI (National Association for Mental Illness) class I'm currently taking.
 This was a gift November 10, 2009
GrandmaSarge (Richland, WA)
I purchased this item as a gift and had it directly shipped to her address. She was extremely happy and suprised. She uses it in her work sessions where she teaches steps to recovery!
reccomended by NAMI September 28, 2009
NAMI NYC
This book is very helpful to families and friends trying to help individuals struggling with mental illness. For me, the book
put the patient in the driver's seat when they could drive and showed me how to help them get their license back when they were too ill to advocate for themselves. I'm a nurse and a parent of a person struggling with bipolar illiness. I see people dealing with chronic illnesses in much the same seemingly dysfunctional way.
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Amodovar demonstrates with specific cases and brain imaging explanations exactly why
brain injured and mentally ill individuals engage in what appears to be denial. This is why I bought the book. It is very frustrating dealing with denial and this book helped me. I was not prepared for how difficult it was to get through. I had to stop and cry and put it aside. It is, however, not a heavy tome or hard to read.
I reccomend this book to professionals who may want a new prespective. I also highly reccomend this book to families and lovers and friends of those struggling with these brain diseases. I warn you, though, this "easy read" is something you may
need to take your time with and absorb slowly.
I am not sick,I don't need help September 15, 2009
G T (San Jose Ca USA)
This is a very great book.Especially for people they want to help the bipolar disorder people who don't need help. GREAT BOOK !!!
Finally - A Way to Deal with the White Elephant in the Room June 25, 2009
Cheryl Taylor (Phoenix, Arizona USA)
I read the whole book in one evening. It offers a clear, concise way to communicate and try to help a loved one with this frustrating disorder. Of course, everything we've tried so far is just the opposite of what we should be doing, except calling an urgent mental-health care facility, which we've done and are expecting them to come to the house within the next three days. We know our loved one will be upset over this action, but feel it's a necessary first step to seeking treatment. With the author's LEAP guidelines, it will be interesting to see our loved one's reaction to this new way of communicating. He is a highly intelligent individual that relishes conversation, as long as it is about him and his delusions. I think we can now talk to him without bringing up his delusions and focusing instead on how we should deal with the overall situation at hand. As long as he can see that we're doing all of this because we care about him and love him, I think it will go a long ways toward his agreeing to seek treatment. This book offers a simple, no-nonsense step-by-step guide towards that end.
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