Extra credit - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages This essay is going to examine the life experience of a schizophrenic patient as she narrated her ordeal through a book.
Lori Schiller suffered from schizophrenia at a young age but it was only in her adult life when the disease became excessive. Eventually she underwent medical and rehabilitation and got well, after that she wrote a book titled, “The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness.” This book reveals the ordeal she underwent while she was suffering from schizophrenia and the book was assembled with the help of her doctor, family and friends. The story of Lori Schiller begins when she was a young girl growing up in a well to do family. Her sickness began at the age of seventeen when she was working as a camp counselor. Her sickness as is described in the book began with little voices inside her head. At first she never talked about the voices and suppressed what she felt. She went on to graduate from college and thereafter proceed to college. During her initial period of being sick, Lori did not believe that she was sick and neither did she know what she was suffering from (Schiller, 1994).
Lori did indeed suffer from schizoaffective since was bi-polar and at the same time schizophrenic. She also started experiencing hallucinations and this did affect her grades when she was in college. Her condition continued to worsen and she started having episodes of hallucinations making her to withdraw socially. Her social life was affected tremendously as witnessed by her testimony, “I was afraid they had heard the Voices and now knew the terrible secrets about me that they were revealing.” This shows that she avoided people and found it difficult to talk of her disease. Schizophrenic patients suffer from delusions and in most cases they are afraid to tell anyone about their problems. This is witnessed in Lori’s case when she talks of “Dr. Diane Fischer, my ...Download file to see next pagesRead More