Living With Schizophrenia In The Quiet Room By Lori Schiller

I chose the memoir written by Lori Schiller, “The quiet room” because I wanted to understand what individuals diagnosed with Schizophrenia goes through. While leaving in New York, I worked as a case manager and the majority of the clients on my case were diagnosed with schizophrenia. I never to time to study and know more about this diagnosis. I had heard about it during my undergraduate, so I knew what it was and how the symptom is expressed on people who had it. However, there was a big difference while reading someone personal memoir about what they went through. Reading this book really opened my eyes to understand what individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia go through and how terrible it can be to have this illness and the impact it could create in a family. In her personal memoir, Lori explained how she …show more content…
She suffered from a mental condition called schizo-affective disorder also known as schizophrenia, which caused her to hear non-existent voices in her head consequently always drove her to suicidal tendencies. The schizophrenia started in 1976 when Lori was 17 years old during the summer before her senior year of high school. The depression symptom began during the period she became obsessed with a boy at her school. She started to imagine dark thought over the young boy. She began to hear voices out of nowhere telling her that she must die. From then on, her experience with schizophrenia became extremely hard, and took a great toll on her life as well as on the lives of her friends, parents, and siblings. She constantly faced many challenges in her struggle with her illness ranging from being admitted to asylums to always being on anti-psychotic medication. However, she recovered after a quite some time and served as a great inspiration to other individuals going through the same