Schiller\'s gripping, heart-rending and ultimately triumphant story of her Journey into Madness and back to reality is told through the voices of Lori and her family, friends and doctor, and captures a rare, astoundingly vivid view into the inner life of a schizophrenic. *Includes reading group guide*.
In this personal account, she tells how she did it, taking us not only into her own shattered world, but drawing on the words of the doctors who treated her and family members who suffered with her.
But against all odds, she survived.
She began an ordeal of hospitalizations, halfway houses, relapses, more suicide attempts, and constant, withering despair.
Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia.
Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind.
At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child-the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family.
Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller\'s memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage.
A stunning story of courage, persistence, and hope.--Publishers Weekly.
Schiller\'s gripping, heart-rending and ultimately triumphant story of her Journey into Madness and back to reality is told through the voices of Lori and her family, friends and doctor, and captures a rare, astoundingly vivid view into the inner life of a schizophrenic
