Psychward

This is a strange book. Make no bones about it, it's weird. What can you do? I suppose you don't have to read it. But then what would be the point of all the words sitting there if you don't even bother to read them eh? I don't know, what are you like? Thinking of jumping ship already? Lightweight. Okay. So...this book is weird, it's strange but, hopefully, it's fun! Good! Let it be so! Okie dokie then. That'll do for a prologue won't it? I don't know, do I have to say anything else? What goes into a prologue then? It's sort of the stuff before the main stuff isn't it? Um, well, er, I can't be arsed! Oh yeah...um...no... I forgot. Oh well, without further ado... hold on, I've just thought of something, yeah... SO you lot are lucky in a way, because I've read this book loooooads of times and the words by this point have kind of lost all meaning - but for you they probably still have that "new book" feeling to them. Good for you!

John Carlisle, a young, intelligent, and imaginative boy is sent to a psych ward without knowing why. This was no ordinary psych ward. Patients here, including John, were abused by those meant to treat them. Extraordinary methods were used to “keep them in line.” As John cries for help, to other patients and those he trusts, he receives only a deaf ear. How can he find the hope for help when everyone fears they will undergo the same harsh treatment felt by the patients at the psych ward? John can only tolerate this treatment for so long. What will he do to escape this living hell? Read this suspenseful thriller to see how John’s twisted imagination sets him free.

- Applicable not just to those with mental health issues, but for churches and the church at large

Find hope for healing and deliverance from despair. Have you ever felt defective? Questioned your value? Wondered if life is worth it? Believed that everyone has it more together than you? Did you think you were too messed up? Too flawed? Too broken? Jennifer Turner allowed these thoughts and more to flood her mind and drown out her true identity in Christ for most of her life, especially when diagnosed with mental illness. In From the Psych Ward to the Sanctuary, Jennifer reveals how to go from living life in defeat and agony to finding lasting hope and freedom. By allowing God and others to enter into her suffering, she learned invaluable lessons that brought her out of the darkness. Begin to debunk the lies that hold you back and live a life of restoration today in this hundred-day devotional.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was in love with my wife, Giulia, when I first saw her at a party. We spent the whole night immersed in flirtatious conversation. We were a couple within a month. We were both blown away by how amazing it feels to love someone and be loved back. #2 I had been planning to go to law school, but now in my college years, I wasn’t doing a good job of convincing myself of that. I haphazardly signed up for humanities courses and cobbled together a history major with an English minor. #3 I loved to make Giulia laugh, because it was like creating a private memory that was ours and ours only. Little things like this pulled me deeper into my infatuation. #4 I moved to Baltimore to teach high school, and Giulia moved to Manhattan to work in fashion. We tried every possible angle to end up in the same city, but we never did. I made a close friend in Baltimore, and spent time with his family.

The riveting true story of an aspiring psychiatrist's year of discovery, frustration, and triumph, this shockingly candid memoir is a real-life One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Emotionally charged --Kirkus.

Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that she was the devil and that her loved ones were not safe. All she wanted was to die. Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was born, Giulia had another breakdown, and then a third a few years after that. pushed to the edge of the abyss, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended. A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit, My Lovely Wife is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor, radiant with compassion, and written with dazzling lyricism, Lukach's is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife's mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers' faith in the power of love.

The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century. Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst facilities in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping healthcare reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began transferring patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrunk, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum’s expansive farmland went out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Erika Dyck’s "Managing Madness" examines an institution that housed people we struggle to understand, help, or even try to change.