No One Cares About Crazy People

Posted on 16 December 2018 by Ron Powers

New York Times bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons battles with schizophrenia.From the centuries of torture of lunatiks at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted Braided with that history is the moving story of Powers s beloved son Kevin spirited, endearing, and gifted who triumphed even while suffering from schizophrenia until finally he did not, and the story of his courageous surviving son Dean, who is also schizophrenic.A blend of history, biography, memoir, and current affairs ending with a consideration of where we might go from here, this is a thought provoking look at a dreaded illness that has long been misunderstood. New Download No One Cares About Crazy People by Ron Powers For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This was an extremely painful book to read, not least because I have a history of mental illness in my family Both my mother and her mother committed suicide same method, same place and I grew up visiting the local mental hospital where my mother stayed for long periods of time She died in 1979, when I was 26 By then she was largely vegetative as a result of over 70 electric shock treatments she had permanent burn scar...This is a deeply emotional book about an important topic, and it seems to have found a large audience judging by the number of holds at my local library if not the number of ratings on Goodreads It s a great idea, alternating between nonfiction chapters about the nature and history of mental illness and a memoir of the author s family, including two sons with schizophrenia And as a journalist, the author has an engaging writing style that kept me wanting to read on It is marred, however, by This is a deeply emotional book about an important topic, and it seems to have found a large audience judging by the number of holds at my local library if not the number of ratings on Goodreads It s a great idea, alternating between nonfiction chapters about the nature and history of mental illness and a memoir of the author s family, including two sons wit...As a clinical social worker with a special interest in the seriously mentally ill, I very much appreciated Ron Powers personal and societal exploration of mental illness As the father of two schizophrenic sons, one who took his own life, he knows the ravages of this disease firsthand Despite a deep need for his family s privacy, he decided to write this book in order to enlighten others and share the appalling narrative of the way that those who are mentally ill have suffered from their ill As a clinical social worker with a special interest in the seriously mentally ill, I very much appreciated Ron Powers personal and societal exploration of mental illness As the father of two schizophrenic sons, one who took his own life, he knows the ravages of this disease firsthand Despite a deep need for his family s privacy, he decided to write th...Exceptional book that provides both valuable information and family insight to mental illness While Mr Powers had every right to pour his emotion into this book he did so sparingly, gently, with elegance and grace Only after his younger son s death did the powerlessness of what he and his lived through really slam me Then facing the future helping their older son live with the same mental illness The other issue or area of this illness, and there are many, was the fine line between genius a Exceptional book that ...In No One Cares About Crazy People, Ron Powers explores the insidious treatment of the mentally ill throughout history and the social injustice perpetrated against their desperate families Stigmatized by societies indifference towards the insane, Powers personal account of son Kevin s slow descent into schizophrenia showcases the incredibly painful process faced while fighting for faster medical treatment Based on the misunderstanding that schizophrenia can be cured with medication and the cho In No One Cares About Crazy People, Ron Powers explores the insidious treatment of the mentally ill throughout history and the social injustice perpetrated against their desperate families Stigmatized by societies indifference towards the insane, Powers personal account of son Kevin s slow descent into schizophrenia showcase...This is a tough one I understand the well intentioned motive of forcing schizophrenics to take their medicine but I dislike the language used in the congressional bills the author supports Civil liberties is an issue here despite the author s casual dismissal of that fact The bill would expand involuntary outpatient commitment, under which someone with serious mental illness is court mandated to follow a specific treatment plan, usually requiring medication What qualifies as a serious menta This is a tough one I understand the well intentioned motive of forcing schizophrenics to take their medicine but I dislike the language used in the congressional bills the author supports Civil liberties is an issue here despite the author s casual dismissal of that fact The bill would expand involuntary outpatient commitment, under which someone with serious mental illness is court mandated to follow a specific treatment plan, usually requiring medication What qualifies as a serious mental illness Psychiatry hasn t been around very long and has a history of making some bad calls, whether it be lobotomies or Thorazine How many pharmaceutical companies are being sued today because their product worsened the symptoms of some patients Do we want a court to determine who is and isn t mentally fit, and then force people to take the latest medications with all the latest side effects I think forci...This text weaves two major threads an opinionated history of the treatment of mental illness, mostly in the U.S., and a tragic memoir of the author s sons gifted and schizophrenic There s conflict between these threads I tried to read this as a history and at times felt an excessive number of pages were spent on juvenilia and family emails This is forgivable, of course I can t imagine a parent s sense of loss from these events, and it s clear that every scrap of happier times would be tr This text weaves two major threads an opinionated history of the treatment of mental illness, mostly in the U.S., and a tragic memoir of the author s sons gifted and schizophrenic There s conflict between these threads I tried to read this as a history and at times felt an excessive number of pages were spent on juvenilia and family emails This is forgivable, of course I can t imagine a parent s sense of loss from these events, and it s clear that every scrap of happier times would be treasured.The book s thesis seems to be that parents should be able to involuntarily commit their adult, mentally ill children to institutions without c...This book is personal enough to be review proof, so I m giving it a noncommittal three stars even though I thought it had a lot of flaws I picked it out because of its important topic mental illness, and bad public policy surrounding mental illness However, I think Powers s account of the history of mental illness and treatment is far from definitive and he actually doesn t talk about public policy in that much detail The policy discussion is personal in that the author never seems to acknow This book is personal enough to be review proof, so I m giving it a noncommittal three stars even though I thought it had a lot of flaws I picked it out because of its important topic mental illness, and bad public policy surrounding mental illness However, I think Powers s account of the history of mental illness and treatment is far from definitive and he actually doesn t talk about public policy in that much detail The policy discussion is personal in that the author never seems to acknowledge that some people with mental illnesses have horrible families, who shouldn t be given power over them He only...What a moving experience I checked this book from the library,but I m buying a copy This book tells two stories the tale of the author s two schizophrenic sons, and the history of mental healthcare in the United States I don t know which touched meWe have a serious problem in my country The mentally ill are the homeless No one is there to go take care of them there are no safety nets Medication costs are sky high Then there is the author who lost one of his his sons to suicide What a moving experience I checked this book from the library,but I m buying a copy This book tells two stories the tale of the author s two schizophrenic sons, and the history of mental healthcare in the United States I don t know which touched meWe have a serious problem in my country...This book is very sad, yet the details and research into mental illness are real facts I like the way the writer writes, and feel lots of empathy toward his life and his sons I learned a lot reading this and struggle with the truths of schizophrenia as my 33 yr old son has it As hard as it is for me as a mother, it must be even worse for the ill ones And if only people would reach outpositively seeing there sensitivity, creativeness, and heart beat just like anyone else, i too believe This book is very sad, yet the details and research into mental illness are real facts I like the way the writer writes, and feel lots of empathy toward his life and his sons I learned a lot reading this and struggle with the truths of schizophrenia as my 33 yr old son has it As hard as it is for me as a mother, it must be eve...

16 December 2018

Ron Powers