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The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 65145
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0446671339
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89820092
EAN: 9780446671330
ASIN: 0446671339
Publication Date: January 1, 1996
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Product Description
The autobiography of a recovered schizophrenic. Lori Schiller was the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit American family who took to the New York streets dressed in rags and lapsed into a world of suicide attempts, hospitalizations, half-way houses, relapses, and constant, withering despair.
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The Quiet Room November 24, 2008
M. Williams (Michigan)
Lori Schiller has written a riveting account of her descent into schizophrenia, her many years of suffering and her courageous breakthrough. It's an amazing true story that is sure to touch you in many ways.
Heartbreaking November 1, 2008
Lee Lukaszewicz (Massachusetts)
In this riveting memoir, Ms. Schilling recounts in detail her spiraling descent into mental illness, which began in adolescence, at camp, when she first heard the voices that she would fight for the rest of her life. Her heartbreaking narrative about this debilitating disease, schizophrenia, gives us all a compassion for these victims that we may not have had before. Her poignant tale reminds all of us who have our mental health intact just how lucky we really are.
The subject is explored from many angles. Her roommate helplessly stands by, knowing something is wrong but not knowing what to do. Her distraught parents are tortured by the worry that they may have caused this. Her distressed brother worries that the disease may strike him next. The story is told through chapters in the first person written by all those touched by Lori's illness, including hospital notes and a long chapter by Dr. Dollar, one of the two doctors who finally broke through to Lori with extensive therapy and the help of a new experimental medication.
Her courageous battle gives hope to all of us, those who have a battle of their own to wage, as well as those in the life of someone who does. I cried when Doctor Fischer left, and I cried when Lori finally put the hospitals behind her to start a new life on her own, a successful life filled with the love of family and friends.
"At last, my life is my own."
Riveting! June 30, 2008
Coleen Forward (LA, CA)
This book helps see into the confused world of mental illness like no other. Wonderful & hopeful!
A must read for all adults- May 17, 2008
C. J. Cox (US)
This is a book that not only educates but provides the reader with a new compassion for those who deal with mental illness. Ms. Schiller presents a very complete picture of the sufferings of the mentally ill. From her writing, I gained a new perspective- including greater compassion- for those who are victims of this awful illness. I have only the highest praise for her honesty, her insight and her struggle. She is to be highly commended. A definite read.
Compelling February 10, 2008
Dr. Khaldoon Alsaee (Dublin, Ireland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a unique and beautiful book. Any person with interests in Psychiatry or Mental Health issues must read it. It's the first time I experienced what a schizophrenic felt first hand. A must-read!
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