Quiet Room, The:A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

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Summary: An insightful glimpse into life with schizophrenia
Review: This is a beautifully written book about a woman's battle with schizophrenia. She begins by describing her descent into the illness and the confusion she experienced. Somehow Lori Schiller manages to describe her experiences with the illness so that you can always see the person inside the mental illness. This is not an easy feat but invaluable for professionals in the field. The most moving scene, to me, was her description of being in a psychiatric hospital and hearing a baby crying. She was frantic because no one would help the baby-yet the baby wasn't real. This is what mental illness is like and why it is such a painful experience. My favorite part of the book was that she reaches a point where she is successfully living with schizophrenia. Too often we forget that people can live with this illness. Not everyone is forever doomed to a halfway house or psychiatric hospital. This is a book every mental health professional should read, especially if you are considering work with the mentally ill.

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Summary: Must read into field of schizophrenia...Thanks Lori
Review: This is a must read for anyone going into the field of psychiatric care. It explains perfectly the pathway of care that must be followed in treating those who have schizophrenia.
Brilliantly put together where you get a perspective from Lori's mom and dad and her brothers, etc. I only wish that I had an opportunity to thank Lori personally for those that she has enabled me to help. This is a necessary book so that people may be treated quickly and with the compassion that they deserve. the quiet room is a safe place and a place where family and friends and therapists and medication come together...it is a place of understanding...it is a place where we can put our thoughts and learn to live day by day...it is a place that you know that we can't go back to that person that we were and that may be sad but it is o.k....it is a place where our feelings can be kept in a safe place...its a place that allows healing for a time...
Again, thanks Lori.

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Summary: INCREDIBLE and MOVING
Review: This is a must read. I found this to be one of the best books I've ever read.

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Summary: Read it in 2 days
Review: This is a very moving, perspective-changing book. Also a very honest one. I'm researching schizophrenia genetics now at UCLA and wanted to get an 'inside' view of schizophrenia. I began reading this book 28 hours ago and finished it this morning, never really putting it down except for a 5 hour catnap. Bless you Lori, wherever you are. I hope you're doing well. The amazing accomplishment of this book is that it truly enables the reader to have a glimpse of the life and torment of being a schizophrenic. I came away much more sympathetic to what so many of our fellow human beings go through. Absolutely the best non-scientific book I've read this year.

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Summary: It was an amazing wonderful book
Review: This was a couragous women to be able to write about herself and tell everyone what she went through. I have a relative who has the same condition but not to that extreme who is on some of those medications. I learned alot from this book about your illness and my sisterinlaw. Thank you very very much.

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Summary: captivating
Review: This was a very good book. It was as if i was behind the scenes

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Summary: perfect insight into mental illness from every angle
Review: when i first heard about this book several years ago, i could not wait to get my hands on it. the story attracted me as it is my own story. and i was not to be disappointed. never before had i read a book that so expressively described my own illness. since it first came out, i have read it many times. this book is honest and direct and tells our story as it needs to be heard, for lori gives the true and painful portrayal of how a psychotic brain manifests itself through behavior. i was glad that she told so forthrightly of her experiences in the hospital. it is because of such honesty that people like us can learn to tell our own stories and demystify society's understanding of mental illness, particularly schizophrenia. through this telling the unfair stigma that has been placed upon us is exonerated. i also liked that the people in her life told their stories as well, for an illness such as this affects all involved. i am grateful to lori and amanda for helping me to gain insight into my own illness and understand better what my family and those closest to me have endured and still endure. i highly recommend this book to anyone interested in gaining an honest understanding of mental illness and the impact on the individual and their loved ones.