Description:Jenny Middlemiss has experienced anxiety, depression, psychosis and mania. She is labelled as living with schizoaffective disorder, a type of schizophrenia. When first hospitalised she was told she would probably never work again. Over the following years she sometimes danced in the streets naked, has been thrown in the back of paddy wagons and incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals. She has also held down senior jobs, paid the rent and tried to participate fully in life, despite continually facing loss, stigma and discrimination. This book represents the culmination of Jenny’s own recovery journey, which involved coming to terms with the experience of living as a person labelled with severe mental illness. Jenny is also the author of The Guide to Film and Television Research (1992), writer/director of the documentary film, My Maiden Voyage (1997) and researcher, interviewer and co-producer of the 11 short Secret Squirrel Business films.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Secret Squirrel Business: A Guide to Mental Health Recovery. To get started finding Secret Squirrel Business: A Guide to Mental Health Recovery, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
287
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Ruah Community Services
Release
2012
ISBN
1921984120
Secret Squirrel Business: A Guide to Mental Health Recovery
Description: Jenny Middlemiss has experienced anxiety, depression, psychosis and mania. She is labelled as living with schizoaffective disorder, a type of schizophrenia. When first hospitalised she was told she would probably never work again. Over the following years she sometimes danced in the streets naked, has been thrown in the back of paddy wagons and incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals. She has also held down senior jobs, paid the rent and tried to participate fully in life, despite continually facing loss, stigma and discrimination. This book represents the culmination of Jenny’s own recovery journey, which involved coming to terms with the experience of living as a person labelled with severe mental illness. Jenny is also the author of The Guide to Film and Television Research (1992), writer/director of the documentary film, My Maiden Voyage (1997) and researcher, interviewer and co-producer of the 11 short Secret Squirrel Business films.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Secret Squirrel Business: A Guide to Mental Health Recovery. To get started finding Secret Squirrel Business: A Guide to Mental Health Recovery, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.