Schizophrenia Fiction

David Sears grew up in the shadow of his brilliant younger sister, Diana, convinced by their father that she would accomplish great things. Instead, she married and had a son, Jason, who, like David and Diana's father, is schizophrenic. Her husband, Mark, a geneticist, never made peace with Jason's condition.

In this book Travis describes to the listener what living with schizophrenia and autism is like. Follow Travis as he shares about his hallucinations, voices, and delusions. Travis shares how television characters and news anchors talk to him. He thinks they have a special message to deliver to him. Travis also talks about having to punish himself because the voices say he is not a real person.

Funny, smart, damaged, Tom is lost in the machinery of the British mental health system, talking to a voice no one else can hear; the voice of Malamock, the Octopus God—sometimes loving, sometimes cruel, but always there to fill his life with meaning. Once an outstanding law student, Tom is now cared for by his long-suffering sister Tess, who encourages him into an experimental drugs trial that promises to silence the voice forever. The Octopus God, however, does not take kindly to being threatened...

Are you ready to get locked away in a maximum-security mental hospital? Go inside the mind of a criminal along with an innocent man. There will be violence, injections, psychosis, and murder. Andrew is married with children. He finds himself fighting for his life in a maximum state mental institute. He will be trying to prove his sanity so that he can make it home to his family.

Surviving Schizophrenia chronicles a path where biochemical intervention is not the sole factor relevant to mental illness. Varied "world views" - Christianity, Maori Pacifika lore, or the credo of a New Age, which have influenced myself - demand a broad approach to mental health. Reckless prescription of drugs should not substitute exclusively for alternative therapies.