Review: This Author Needs Help!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2014
This author knocks those that are on disability for mental health issues, and then she ends up on disability for a closed head injury, from which she "magically" recovers from over a period of 15 minutes, months later. Plainly her psychiatrist did not believe someone could just suddenly and magically "will" themselves to not have her serious and debilitating mental health issues.This book reads as written from someone still having serious mental health issues and magical thinking. The writing throughout is very "ditzy", jumping from subject to subject, covering numerous subjects that have nothing to do with mental illness (which left me feeling deceived from the title of this book) - and throughout the book is the magical thinking.It is absolutely absurd that she thinks her mother developed schizophrenia at 80 years old, and it doesn't even seem to hit her radar that her mother may have had a stroke or had dementia. But, I also find it absurd that she claims the mentally ill choose their mental illness, and they can choose not to be the ways they are. But, even that way of her thinking doesn't jive with her also listing all kinds of physical causes of mental illness. She doesn't believe either that mental illness is caused from anything in a child's upbringing.Throughout this book her messages are contradictory of even what she herself has said. And, her contempt for the mentally ill is staggering! Does she have that contempt for herself as well?She accuses the mentally ill of "working the system" and getting free money by not working. 'Course she must not fit in that category cause her mental illness was supposedly caused by her closed head injury - which, by the way her doctors did not believe she could end up with the level of disability she acted with her apparent minor level of head injury...(which as I said above, she 'magically' claims to have recovered from over a period of 15 minutes, months later...)But, the real question is this; once she suddenly recovered and quit going to doctors and psychiatrists - after she started getting her disability checks - did she terminate her disability payments? Or did she continue to use the system, as she accuses others of doing?