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    Same Time Next Week: True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness

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    In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illnessand yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as mentally ill.” We hear about worst-case scenarios, but in manymaybe even mostcases, there is much room for hope. These frank, often intimate stories reflect the writers’ struggles to overcomeboth as professionals and as individuals, as current therapists and as former patientsthe challenges presented by depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, and other mental disorders. These dramatic narratives communicate clearly the rewards of helping patients move forward with their lives, often through a combination of medication, talk therapy, and common sense. Collectively, these true stories highlight the need for empathy and compassion between therapist and patient, and argue for a system that encourages human connection rather than diagnosis by checklist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIn Fact Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2015
    ISBN9781937163204
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    • 5/5
      As someone currently studying to go into a mental health profession, I was so excited to have been chosen to receive this book, and it did not disappoint! It contains a great assortment of memoir style essays from people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness and their journey to learning coping mechanisms and finding recovery. Many of the patients are also mental helth professionals themselves which makes for some definitely fascinating insights! I definitely recommend this book!
    • 5/5
      Same Time Next Week is a look at the mental health system as experienced by both patient and provider. Each of the 18 vignettes is a personal account of the individuals journey with mental illness from diagnosis to treatment to aftercar. As a licensed clinical social worker I'm fascinated by the impact mental illness has on an individual's ability to function in society as a whole and n their own lives. These stories take away some of the stigma inherent in a diagnosis of mental illness and allows the reader to see the individuals struggle and at times succeed with their mental health issues.
    • 5/5
      This book was powerfully honest. Parts of it confirmed what I had only suspected about the mental health field. I recommend this book to anyone, since we all struggle sometimes and we all know people who struggle. It's a compassion-builder. I especially liked the very last essay. I think the essays were arranged in a sort of order, ending on a positive note, though many of the essays were somewhat positive...
    • 5/5
      I stopped subscribing to Lee Gutkind's "Creative Nonfiction" a few years ago. The issues often began with his ongoing defense of the genre, a tedious and unnecessary argument. Just let the writing speak for itself, I thought. The magic of a perfectly constructed first sentence is the only advocacy that good writing needs, regardless of the genre.In "Same Time Next Week," Gutkind steps back and gives the writing room to triumph. Skip the "Drama, in Real Life!" short introductions to each piece, and the stories themselves will teach you how people with mental illness struggle and heal. Years after the shock of my husband's diagnosis of bipolar disorder and recently being broadsided by my teenage daughter's bout with depression, I found reassurance in the writers' validation that, yes, people with mental illness heal, work and even write with a creative insight that we often don't acknowledge is possible for people whose minds have turned against them. The catalog of mental illness is all here: parental negligence, a mental health system that is sometimes inadequate and always overtaxed, patients that are lost in their self-absorption, and the battle to find treatment when no one solution works for everyone.What is sometimes missing is the family's perspective and the understanding that we are often part of the cure, not the cause. Mental illness's biological component doesn't limit itself to children whose mothers ignored them. It can take over abruptly in normal families, to those of us who least expect it.The most important sentence in the book is, in fact, its last, when Ella Wilson writes that, after finding the right therapist, she "came down a person." With mental illness, it's easy to believe that life will never be normal again, but it often is, with the mundane happiness of just being recognized as a person instead of the embodiment of an illness.
    • 3/5
      There are extremely powerful stories in this collection but I'm not sure who the target audience is: mental health professionals? People with mental illnesses? Or it could be both. The message is clear: Mental illnesses should be talked about constructively and openly. The way we treat (in an office or hospital and not in those settings) people who have them is important.This isn't to speak disparagingly but it felt like a "Chicken Soup for the Soul" type book. A reader can pick it up and put it down reading the stories in any order they want.
    • 4/5
      This is a really great anthology that explores mental illness, in its many different forms. The stories cover a wide range of illnesses and perspectives. Some stories are written by sufferers, others are written by family, and many others are written by doctors and therapists. The writing style of the authors isn't perfect, and I would have made some editorial changes, but the content is top-notch. The subject matter is intriguing, interesting, and relevant for anyone who deals with mental illness or knows someone who does.I recommend this book to anyone who has experienced mental illness or suffering, whether personally or remotely. It helps you understand the mental diseases that affect ourselves and the people we love. It helps you get in the mind of the illnesses - it sheds light on so many psychological difficulties. As a sufferer, I was able to relate personally to several stories - those on OCD, depression, and anorexia. However, even the ones to which I could not relate - those on schizophrenia, etc - were intriguing and helped me understand how other people experience the world.
    • 4/5
      I received this book as a Library Thing Early Reviewer. I chose to request this book because I work in a setting where some of my residents have mental illnesses. I was hoping to find some insight into their minds and maybe how to interact with and understand them better. I did find many of the essays informative and helpful. A good resource for anyone wanting to get an inside look at real people and the issues they deal with.
    • 4/5
      I took notes & highlighted my way through this book, as I like to do with most books on the subject of mental illness, so I can go back and reflect on what aspects of the book really speak to me. In doing so I came across one particular sentence which really did speak to me since I often experience racing thoughts due to my diagnosis with Bipolar II. In the story The Dictator In My Head, a sort of memoir by social worker Kurt Warner who struggles with OCD, Kurt writes early on "...the only true escape from the dictator is in sleep." That is how I often feel about my own mental illness, especially when depressed. Some writing styles were a little harder to engage with as a reader, but as someone who struggles with mental illness, I was able to relate to the stories as a whole. Salvaging Parts by Olga-Maria Cruz and Illusions of Wellness by Katherine Sheppard Carrane were both examples of engaging and relatable writing. This book is definitely recommended reading for those living with mental illness, those treating mental illness and those who just want a better understanding of mental illness.
    • 5/5
      A unique book that takes the reader on a personal journey through the eyes of various authors. The book has stories that are written from the heart, that are both brutal in the beginning, but hopeful in the ending. Each story is set up in a way that various types of mental illness are shared. Authors share their rough road with bipolar disorder, anorexia, depression, addiction, severe abuse, etc. No story is alike and that is what makes this book so special. It is a real blessing in disguise and a powerful tool to use as a parent and a caregiver to a child with a mental illness. It is not very often that I see books that have authors come together like this and remind readers that there are positive outcomes, when all there seems like is darkness. As a parent I sometimes feel helpless and worry about my child’s future. It is not necessarily the present that bothers me, but the future when she becomes an adult and is out of my home. This book gave me a great deal of encouragement and reminded me that we as a family have much to look forward to. Bipolar disorder will not control my daughter if we teach her too control it. I am so grateful that the authors of this book took the time to come together to create it. I want them to know that it makes a difference for parents such as myself that are struggling every day with a special needs child. To those other parents that are looking for something a little different and need a good pick me up, I strongly recommend this book. I also recommend this book for my special need families as well. We have to support one another or we just won’t make it. Hang in there everyone, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.