The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

This book was extremely interesting and informative about this disease and the way it is treated. It kept me wanting to continue listening even when my driving was finished

Not crazy about this one. Seems slightly embellished coming from a very successful, highly-functioning person to accurately recount very specific incidence of schizophrenia. Hospital admissions and sought-out treatment regimens seemed like self-afflicted, almost attention-seeking, behaviors. To be given a job as a qualified mental health assistance as the very hospital where the person had been admitted twice in the past seems far-fetched. It almost appeared as though the treatment and hospital admissions to a mental health facility were sought out as a "project" to gain insight into the way mental health patients are treated.

What a story!! Absolutely fantastic glimpse into the minds eye of someone with thought disorder. I also suffer from mental illness of a different variety, and I have always found the brain absolutely fascinating. Talk therapy and group therapy support saved my life long before medication became a part of my story, I loved this book and I cannot wait to read another by Elyn !