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  2. Hidden Valley Road - Wikipedia

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    "Hidden Valley Road" is a true story about an American family with twelve children, six of whom are diagnosed with schizophrenia. The eldest, Donald Galvin, was born in 1945, and the youngest, Mary (who later changed her name to Lindsay) was born in 1965. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia.

  3. The Collected Schizophrenias - Wikipedia

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    Wang is the author of the 2013 novel The Border of Paradise, [3] a multi-generational family story of immigrants dealing with mental illness. Talking to The Paris Review, she spoke about using her experience with mental illness in her fiction: "I wrote The Border of Paradise with the intent of writing about psychosis, hallucinations, et cetera, in a very visceral way that I hadn’t seen before."

  4. Schizophrenics Anonymous - Wikipedia

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    The SA program is based on the twelve-step model, [10] but includes just six steps. [6] [11] The organization describes the program's purpose of helping participants to learn about schizophrenia, "restore dignity and sense of purpose," obtain "fellowship, positive support, and companionship," improve their attitudes about their lives and their illnesses, and take "positive steps towards recovery."

  5. Challenger Deep (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Challenger Deep is a 2015 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman about a teenager's onset of schizophrenia.The story was based on his own son. [1] It won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature [2] and was placed on "Best of the Year" lists by Publishers Weekly, the New York Public Library, and the American Library Association.

  6. Daniel Paul Schreber - Wikipedia

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    The first of these, in 1884-1885 was what was then diagnosed as dementia praecox (later known as paranoid schizophrenia or schizophrenia, paranoid type). He described his second mental illness , from 1893 to 1902, making also a brief reference to the first disorder from 1884 to 1885, in his book Memoirs of A Nervous Illness ( German ...

  7. Schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    About 0.3% to 0.7% of people are diagnosed with schizophrenia during their lifetime. [19] In 2017, there were an estimated 1.1 million new cases and in 2022 a total of 24 million cases globally. [2] [20] Males are more often affected and on average have an earlier onset than females. [2]

  8. Psychiatric survivors movement - Wikipedia

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    "The most persistent critics of psychiatry have always been former mental hospital patients" [citation needed], although few were able to tell their stories publicly or to openly confront the psychiatric establishment, and those who did so were commonly considered so extreme in their charges that they could seldom gain credibility. [9]

  9. Delusions of grandeur - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, grandiose delusions are frequently found in paranoid schizophrenia, in which a person has an extremely exaggerated sense of their significance, personality, knowledge, or authority. For example, the person may declare to be the owner of a major corporation and kindly offer to write a hospital staff member a check for $5 million if ...

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