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A brief book that recounts the wait of an autistic adult for residential placement in a group home, while living with her 78 year old mother.

Fever" is the saga of a Medicare patient hospitalization for a fever of Unknown Origin. Details makes it a documentary about "medical errors&misdiagnosis., " When Joshua Pelham refused to eat or drink, his wife tried to entice him to eat, but when he had a very high fever and several episodes of fainting, she felt obligated to seek help and took him to the hospital. After two months in the hospital undergoing many invasive tests & Ct-scans to ...

Young Bella Hunt has been afflicted by perceptual distortions &a, thought disorder ever since she was abducted from Planet Debonnaire by the mad scientists of Planet Terrorista. With the help of Sherlock Holmes, her mother , Hyacinth Hunt, locates and visits her on Planet Terrorista and years later succeeds in taking her back home to Planet Debonnaire. However the young girl now displays full blown mental illness and a search is on for a cur...

Residents of group homes have diminished autonomy and as such need protection by advocates outside the mental health system as they are being used in a Human Research Project without their understanding, (informed consent, ) a project which entails more than "minimal risk" and harm their overall health and prevents their recovery. Their diminished functioning is blamed on progression of the disease, when in fact it is the drugcocktails they ha...

THE AUTHOR EXAMINES HER DAUGHTER'S DIARIES AND HER MANY HOSPITALIZATONS AND COMES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT WHAT SHE SUFFERED FROM WAS severalTRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES AND THAT SHE HAD BEEN MISDIAGNOSED BOTH AS SUFFERING FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER AND SCHIZOPHRENIA.

This book describes the experience of taking care of an adolescent with mental illness while coordinating art shows at a College Galleries. (PCC) In particular art by WPA artists at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the WPA program. (Governement subsidy of the artists under the great depression in the Roosevelt area)

this is an expansion of a fascinating calming of the spirit exploring how homeopathy and Neuro-feedback can be used together to restore the true nature of a person, and possibly cure autism, in the contest of an unfriendly environment. The most healing environment is found to be the individual's own home.

This novel encompasses the year 2016, when Dorothy Elms was granted guardianship of her daughter in a court of law, and is able to discover that her daughter was misdiagnosed and mistreated as she is autistic and her diagnosis of schizophrenia might very well have been drug-induced.. The changes enabled through the guardianship are astounding. It restores mother-daughter trust and relationship when because of disability an adult is not operat...

This collection of essays and short stories, poetry, letters started as a stream of thoughts about mental health, and ended up with a plea to a "prescriber" for an explanation for prescribing duplicate drugs. She expresses concern about overdosing, their becomonig addicted to the prescribed psychiatric drugs, (as demonstrated sadly by the recent death of cherished singers). At a time when politicians plead on TV for street drug addicts to come...

A parent discovers that the program that she thought would reintegrate her daughter back into community living, and would heal her, was a poorly designed, undisclosed research program that illegally coerced consumers to take drugs that had nothing to do with rehabilitation, and was not conducted by scientists. In addition, it violated many rules of permissible research programs with Human subjects, the first and most essential one being INFORM...

This book demonstrates what happens to a diagnoses schizophrenic when she stops taking psychiatric drugs. Her amazing clarity, thirst for knowledge, exuberance, ability to make desicions will amaze you. Contrast what hppens to her when she returns to the group home and is swept back into their traditional drug maintenance. Readers can make their own judgment as to how our current tradition of administering psychiatric drug cocktails to these r...

The author relates some of the circumstances that led her to petition for guardianship of her adult daughter who had a diagnosis of mental illness, autism, developmental disability, dyslexia, OCD, and learning disabiliity. Her efforts to protect her from the injury inflicted by neuroleptics, and the various avenues she explored for treatment as well as diagnosis are also related here with honesty, details, and helpful suggestions and comments.

The author describes what she realizes is a violation of civil and human rights in the treatment of those with a diagnosis of mental illness.

The book laments the violation of fundamental civil and human rights in the treatment of consumer-residents in group homes, treated mainly with dangerous and habit forming psychiatric drugs, and incapable of giving informed consent, yet their families are kept in the dark.

A story about a young girl abducted by extra-terrestrials and given medications that induced mental illness behaviors in her.

Several stories centered about the character of Mr. Jones, under various names and at different stages of life. Will appeal to both men and women middle aged and up. The stories cover a great range of situations and the avid reader will identify with & enjoy several of these.

An incident of discovering bedbugs on a resident's bed in a group home, that sends residents out for a few weeks, makes it possible for one of the residents to stop taking her meds. As a result, she is more awake and touch with reality, and anxious and eager to learn, amazingly inquisitive and eager to make up for her lack of schooling, and motivated to help others.

As incredible as it seems this tale recounts what happened to the behavior of a young girl when she received various neuroleptics.

Of Love and Mourning. A collection of short stories centered around the vagaries and many aspects of falling in love. Including the series "Mourning Mr. Jones", a sequel to "Driving Mr. Jones

A 78 year old mom undertakes to be the caretaker of her autistic daughter. until she goes to the library for drivers training, and comes across "Nobody cares for crazy people" by Ron Powers. Unfortunately, her health is failing, as the caretaking is 24/7, and she is feeling unsafe. A DDD ICM comes to the rescue with a respite home where Desiree moves temporarily till a ndew group home is found. The book is about what she learned from reading R...