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When Madness Comes Home: Help and Hope (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 362 pages
  • Publisher: Hyperion (31 Dec 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0786861711
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786861712
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Validating Book, 10 Aug 1999
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This review is from: When Madness Comes Home (Paperback)
As an adult child of a parent suffering from severe depression, I found this book very helpful. This book was reassuring that I was not alone in my experience and it helped me to realize how this had affected my life. Too often, families of those with mental disorders are overlooked by both society and mental health professionals. Furthermore, the stigma associated with mental disorders isolates these family members even more. This book was very helpful for me.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Easily the best book for families that I have read., 11 Jan 1999
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I have been frustrated in my attempts to find help for my teenage daughter in understanding my mental illness. I found information for spouses and parents of the mentally ill but nothing for the children being raised by people like me. When I found this book I started reading to see if I thought it might be helpful to my daughter, it wasn't long however until I started seeing my own childhood in it and gained much insight for myself. One way that was helpful was to take away some of the guilt I carried about the kind of mother I had been. There are two areas in particular that I feel this book addressed very well that I were just the kind of help I was seeking for my daughter. First was to help relieve some of her fears about "turning out crazy" because mom did. Second was to get across the point to her that she is not responsible for me. That she has every right to go forward with her own life and let me attend to mine. That alone has helped our relationship immensely. I did not realize how much anger and resentment she was feeling about feeling that she had to be so careful with me. I was abusive to her when she was a small child and as I worked on stopping the abuse, I always stressed to her that the abuse was my fault. That she was a good little girl, that mommy had problems that I had to take care myself. I think that now she understands better what made me the way I am and that I am responsible for myself. I am extremely grateful for this book, not only for my daughter, but for the understanding I gained.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but not helpful, 12 Jun 1999
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When my daughter suffered a deep depression, I read this book and found it spectacularly unhelpful. The author has done a study that revealed a bunch of interesting facts about how mental illness runs in families. But the underlying tone of parent-bashing that pervades this book will make you feel miserable if you're a parent with a child who has problems. Parents and so-called "bad parenting" do NOT cause every problem a young adult encounters in life.

This book may be useful for adults whose parents had mental problems. And it may also be fine for siblings. But if your child has mental problems, I'd strongly advise turning elsewhere for help. You won't find it here.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Positive Review
This is the first book I've ever read that legitimizes the many complex and long-term problems suffered by families which contain members with mental illness. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Overall a great look at how families must cope. A catalyst
Hopefully this book will be a catalyst for creating some sort of structured help for families now coping with the mentally ill. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 1997

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative look at how families of the mentally ill cope
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