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Summary: this is a great book for anyone with questions
Review: Rebecca Woolis, or better known as Becca to me (i'm her goddaughter) wrote this amazing book. It gives great advice and the new revised edition should be available quite soon
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Summary: Solid Advice
Review: This book contains what so many mental health books lack: advice. The majority of books on mental health offer a medical or personal description of various mental health conditions. This book tells someone who loves or cares for a mentally ill friend or relative how to help and handle them.It covers the basics of how to approach and talk to someone who may not be behaving or thinking rationally at the time, to how to work with insurance companies and locate help. I have purchased dozens of books in my quest to help a loved one. While the majority have been useful, this is the one I wish I read first. If you need help understanding and working with mental illness, this book is a great starting point.
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Summary: Solid Advice
Review: This book contains what so many mental health books lack: advice. The majority of books on mental health offer a medical or personal description of various mental health conditions. This book tells someone who loves or cares for a mentally ill friend or relative how to help and handle them. It covers the basics of how to approach and talk to someone who may not be behaving or thinking rationally at the time, to how to work with insurance companies and locate help. I have purchased dozens of books in my quest to help a loved one. While the majority have been useful, this is the one I wish I read first. If you need help understanding and working with mental illness, this book is a great starting point.
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Summary: Get Revised Edition
Review: This book was extremely helpful to our family. Make sure you get a copy of the 2003 revised edition. I was first sent one that had the older edition (with 232 pages) even though the cover said, "revised and expanded". The revised edition has 308 pages. Amazon/B & N, or the publisher will send you a new one if you return it. The book is well worth reading. It has so much practical advise. We are now able to talk with our son again, which we've hardly been able to do since he got sick.
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Summary: Excellent book. Excellent help. Excellent Guide
Review: When my son was disgnosed with a mental illness I started to look for books and literature that help me to understand what was going on, and how could I deal with it. Also, to learn about what to expect in terms of behaviors that I haven't seen in him yet, etc. I found several books that were very good in terms of describing mental illness from the medical point of view, but none of them would say much about the patients as people interacting with relatives or friends. In addtion to that, is common to find description of very extreme and severe cases whose profile may not necessarily match yours. This book is easy-to-read and its content is excellent. It has all the practical information you need to know, and you need to be aware of. Even though it doesn't not go very in depth, the information provided comes from a valid and experienced source who has work and done research about mental illness, so things are explained along with the "reason why" they happened that way and not in other, and why they fit in the profile of mental illness. This book helps people to learn the best ways to deal, act and react to a person who suffers from it in a way that both, patient and family, can reduce the stress and find harmony living together. EXCELLENT
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