Bitter Medicine
Subtitle: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness
Publisher: Freehand Books
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781551119281
Subjects: Schizophrenics; Mental health services; Canada, biography
Description: In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with devastating illness, frustrated by a health care system lacking in resources and empathy, the imperfect science of medication, and the strain of mental illness on familial relationships.