Telling Is Risky Business: The Experience of Mental Illness Stigma

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Summary: The Reality of Most Living with Mental Illness
Review: If you have battled clinical depression or any other mental illness Otto Wahl's "Telling is Risky Buisness" will hit home in a painful way. Wahl reveals what most sufferers experience, the tension between fighting a terrifying illness while maintaining your integrity to non sufferers who fail to understand.
An important book.

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Summary: But, it's a risk we have to take!
Review: Reviewer is author of NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY: ONE MAN'S RECOVERY, (which is also on Amazon.com).

Dr. Wahl writes the story as it is, not as it "ought" to be. He superbly tells of the often taxing choir of the sharing of our psychiatric histories. As he so aptly describes, stigma is our reality, but it's good to know that, perhaps, the future holds better times for us "consumers." Until these better times arrive, however, let us continue to, as bravely as possible, run our private (and shared) gauntlets, accordingly. Otto Wahl has done his research well. So, my brothers and sisters, I want to tell you; "This book, in my books, is a Must Read!"

Rating:
Summary: The Reality of Most Living with Mental Illness
Review: Reviewer is author of NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY: ONE MAN'S RECOVERY, (which is also on Amazon.com).

Dr. Wahl writes the story as it is, not as it "ought" to be. He superbly tells of the often taxing choir of the sharing of our psychiatric histories. As he so aptly describes, stigma is our reality, but it's good to know that, perhaps, the future holds better times for us "consumers." Until these better times arrive, however, let us continue to, as bravely as possible, run our private (and shared) gauntlets, accordingly. Otto Wahl has done his research well. So, my brothers and sisters, I want to tell you; "This book, in my books, is a Must Read!"