Nothing Like Normal Surviving A Sibling Schizophrenia Martha GrahamWaldon 9781626943667 Books
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What if you woke up one day, living with a family member who had changed into an entirely different person? What if she were an older sibling you had always admired and strived to be like? And what if you were an insecure preteen when it all started? What would that do to your life? In Nothing Like Normal, after an idyllic childhood, the strains of adolescence send one sister spiraling down into a mental breakdown, leaving her younger sibling and family to cope with the aftermath. The author must face her fears, while navigating the ups and downs of her own volatile teen years, and find her truth or be pulled in the same direction as her former mentor. Her struggle to survive and move forward on a journey of self-discovery will resonate with anyone who has known the heartbreak of mental illness in their family, while inspiring hope and healing as well.
Nothing Like Normal Surviving A Sibling Schizophrenia Martha GrahamWaldon 9781626943667 Books
This beautifully –written memoir invites us into the life of a family struggling with mental illness in one of its members. Written from a sister’s point-of–view, the author shows the turmoil, confusion and grief of watching a beloved sister fade away from schizophrenia.Graham-Waldon’s writing is eloquent and vivid. She paints the picture of a loving family and childhood then slowly unveils how her sister’s breaks from reality shatter their hopes and dreams. Underlying her sister’s progressive descent into mental illness is a deep and lasting love of a family who refuses to give up hope. The journey is an arduous one and takes the reader through the tumultuous journey.
I admire the author’s ability to write such an intimate and deeply painful story with such grace and love.
This memoir is a compassionate guide spoken from the heart of a loving sister. It offers hope that the best way to honor a loved one struggling with mental illness is to survive and thrive in your own life. It is of particular value to those who love someone who has been diagnosed with mental illness and those who serve the mentally-ill population. Beyond that, it is an enlightening and engaging read for those who those who love real stories about real people.
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Nothing Like Normal Surviving A Sibling Schizophrenia Martha GrahamWaldon 9781626943667 Books Reviews
If you have ever had a family member suffer from Schizophrenia this book is comforting. The disease itself is such a cruel thing to witness and so heartbreaking for a family. The person suffering from it cannot help how they are behaving. I wish I had a book like this to read when my brother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when he was 20 years old in 1975. While I was reading this book it validated so many things our family went through trying to help my brother. The way people don't really want to run around and announce to the world that they have a family member who suffers from this illness. The odd things my brother did and the combative behavior was frightening. I think there is a lot of shame and embarrassment around mental illness, especially when people are hearing voices in their head. It has been over 40 years from when my brother was first diagnosed. The medication and treatment has improved. Understanding how the illness still impacts families, law enforcement, healthcare providers, and society in general is going to be best understood by sharing our stories. Thank you Martha Graham-Waldon for having the courage to do that for all of us.
I was a bit nervous , wary to read this book about mental illness as I know people in my family who have mental illness. But Martha writes in such a way that I felt a part of her journey. This is a story of what it is like to be a sibling, family member of someone who has mental illness. How it affects you, your parents, you life.. How you see the future. It is sad to read this story. I found out a lot of things, I did not know before . The book is easy to read and can be read in couple of nights.
I hope to see future books by Ms. Waldon
Reading this book made me realize the mental illness my own sister suffered from might have been schizophrenia. It went undiagnosed through her life and she died before the full spectrum of that disease overtook her. Reading this book brought out a lot of painful memories, but at the same time shone a light of understanding on what during my sister's life I never understood. Thank you, Martha, for your bravery and for writing this book,
"Nothing Like Normal" is a gripping, clear-eyed view of the author's relationship with her sister who had schizophrenia. This is an important book, as it's rare to find such a well-written account of this particular kind of relationship.There is much to be learned by reading about the Graham family. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is connected to someone who has a mental illness.
Dyane Leshin-Harwood, B.A.
Founder, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, Santa Cruz County, CA Chapter
What is NORMAL Anway? This was the question I was 'foolishly' or maybe 'highly unrealistically' expecting to be answered in this all too human and yet piercing memoir.
I began reading this memoir by carefully studying the cover picture. I concluded the two chubby innocent girls on the front cover were MGW to the left and her dearest sister Kathy Graham (KG) to the right. While MGW looked in to the camera, KG looked more closely into the gaze of the pet birds they carried. I noticed her shirt lifted up a little and showed her tummy and yet that wasn't a problem for the photographer. Yet, you may agree with me that in some cultures, keeping birds for pets, or not being properly tucked up be you kids, is simply not NORMAL.
This memoir did more to me than just help me see how another family just like mine had, faced and dealt with their member's mental illness. MGW may not know to what extent her memoir will impact some, but it has definitely shattered this paradigm of 'NORMAL' to me.
Was normal to be the absence of a diagnosis mindful of some signs that something was seemingly going on with KG? Was it now their new NORMAL that something was indeed going on with KG but then they had to 'embrace' that as is or 'pretend' to still fit in with 'conventional community'? What about it being NORMAL to sympathize with their mum who suffered a stroke, and yet shy away and stigmatize the Graham's for having a 'mad member' in their family?
I am not going on any further, I read this memoir with so much attention to everything because I couldn't really believe another family, far away in the USA, could go through such shattering trauma and deal with stigma too! I really thought such things happened only in Africa, to families like mine, well in a setting where people died more from ignorance than from Negligence. I don't know what to make of the 'medication tradition or pattern out there'. What is NORMAL now? Go after the symptoms? Go after the illness as diagnosed? Go after the person and beat the S*** out of them?
And in the process of it, how do you a close sibling deal and heal with it all? I applaud MGW's vivid narration of their various exotic and adventurous family vacations and existence before 'Life happened'. This in my firm opinion as an aggrieved sibling like herself, states the strong case that the 'lunatics' the world now sees, had a 'NORMAL' life before their mental illness. I am glad and actually obliged to MGW for writing this memoir mindful of her pain. I rate the book a 5/5 because of the 'intensity of the different subjects covered'. If I could recommend only 3 books for your year end, this will definitely be one of them. If you read carefully and in between, you'll definitely re-evaluate that word NORMAL.
This beautifully –written memoir invites us into the life of a family struggling with mental illness in one of its members. Written from a sister’s point-of–view, the author shows the turmoil, confusion and grief of watching a beloved sister fade away from schizophrenia.
Graham-Waldon’s writing is eloquent and vivid. She paints the picture of a loving family and childhood then slowly unveils how her sister’s breaks from reality shatter their hopes and dreams. Underlying her sister’s progressive descent into mental illness is a deep and lasting love of a family who refuses to give up hope. The journey is an arduous one and takes the reader through the tumultuous journey.
I admire the author’s ability to write such an intimate and deeply painful story with such grace and love.
This memoir is a compassionate guide spoken from the heart of a loving sister. It offers hope that the best way to honor a loved one struggling with mental illness is to survive and thrive in your own life. It is of particular value to those who love someone who has been diagnosed with mental illness and those who serve the mentally-ill population. Beyond that, it is an enlightening and engaging read for those who those who love real stories about real people.
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