Assisting those you care who suffer from Schizophrenia | I am not sick I don't need help

I'm not sick, I don't need help | I am not sick I don't need help | Xavier Amador

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	• I am not sick I don't need help Xavier Amador Vida Press, 2007 - 168 pages average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help

When I started reading this book I instantly had the feeling there was someone who knew exactly what was going on with my loved one and what questions I had about it. Being German I had not been able to find anything adequate on the German bookmarket. This book does not only explain what someone with schizophrenia is going through but also gives hope and confidence for family members and other persons concerned. Dr. Amador's method of "LEAP" has become a very helpful and precious instrument for me and those I passed the book. "THE BOOK" we call it and for me it truly has been some kind of a live-saver. Thank you, Dr. Amador!

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Assisting those you care who suffer from Schizophrenia

After 8 years and many consultations in several countries and myriad of books and literature, this book is by far THE BEST book for a family or someone who has a loved one suffering from schizophrenia. Xavier Amador has done a brilliant job in putting things in simple English as a family guide on how to support and what to expect.

I'm not sick, I don't need help

I havenot read this book yet, although it was recommended to my by the head of an advocacy agency for people with chronic mental illness, which is a strong plus. It's not a very long book, but from the list of contents, it looks to deal with issues other publications have not dealt with such as the truth behind denial of illness and resistance to taking drugs which might otherwise stabilize psychotic symptoms.
The delivery of this book went smoothly and it arrived in good shape.

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Incredible!

I was brought to tears on more than one occasion while reading this amazing book. Such a brilliant, compassionate approach to getting help for loved ones who don't think they need help. I recommend this book for anyone who's life is affected by mental illness.

Not quite the whole story, but still good

This book is excellent, but there are certain vital aspects that are kind of left out. I do understand why Dr. Amador probably did this; it's a book about how to deal with loved ones who refuse to admit they're sick, so it can't go off into too many tangents. What it doesn't do is to make it clear that *not all mentally ill people are like this!!!* Some of us are NOT in denial and DO have insight. Some of us KNOW we're sick and we DO need help (that's why we take our meds exactly the way our doctor told us to!) The only problem, then, is that anyone reading this book is likely to get the impression that nobody with a severe and persistent mental illness admits it or is able to admit it. This is so untrue. To be fair, Dr. Amador does say in the beginning that as many of 50% of all of us SPMI folk are med compliant, but that's the only place where this is said and it's easy to forget.

I'd like to see someone explore the issue of the 25-50% of people with SPMI's who ARE compliant with their meds. We're out there! I should know-- I'm one of them. YES, I'm bipolar, and I'll need medication until the day I die, so *give me the pills!* That's pretty much my attitude. The capper to it all is that I have a closed head injury from a car accident, and an MRI certainly DOES show that I have frontal lobe lesions. Hey, guess what... I'm still not in denial about having BP. The least attractive thing about it is that I can get pretty self-righteous about people who don't take their meds, complete with the "if I can do it, anyone can" attitude. ;) But still, I would really like to see Dr. Amador (or another author) address why and how some patients are fully compliant. What are they doing that the others are not doing; what are they avoiding that others are falling into? Are there warning signs that even the compliant folks might go off meds? If so, what are they? Are certain subtypes of mental illnesses more likely to cause people to be compliant? Less likely? I think there's so much that could be learned by looking at the people who have SPMI's but are not covered in this particular book. Other than that, though, it's a great book. :)

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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.