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Dad Named Me Robert: Let's Talk About Mental Illness
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About Dad Named Me Robert: Let's Talk About Mental Illness
Product Description Many people in modern society are diagnosed with mental illness. My family experienced it firsthand. Through this book, I want to share our family’s journey with our remarkable son and brother who truly taught us the most important lessons of life.The professional people who have held us in their hands and hearts are dedicated to those of us who are personally affected by these brain-based disorders that the world calls mental illnesses. My goal is to draw attention to the fact that these dedicated professionals are bound in a web spun by a spider that traps them in a system that is fragmented and seems to make no sense.In the past, people with mental illnesses were “housed” in asylums world-wide. More recently in this country, state hospitals served that role until the emergence of antipsychotic medications and other forms of treatment permitted people with such diagnoses to come into the mainstream of our society. Robert and our family were on the leading edge of that transition.I hope this story will benefit others who are walking a similar path in caring for a loved one Review This is a compelling and fascinating story of the life of Robert, who had schizophrenia. It is uniquely written by his mother who specializes in the brain basis of mental illnesses. Over more than thirty years, I have been awed at the advocacy and care that Joan and her family provided for Robert. Throughout Joan's faculty career, she has helped teachers,nurses, policemen, other professionals, and families understand the brain basis of mental illness. Joan gives an inside story of what it's really like to live with a son who has schizophrenia. - Karyl Rickard, PhD, RDN Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Dietetics, Indiana University School of Health and Human Sciences, Indianapolis, IN Marvelous! I laughed and cried all the way through the book. So many poignant chapters. Love it! Joan shares the practical aspects of daily care and all the research, with wisdom more than most know. Joan and her family are a rare family who pull together and make more than 30 years with schizophrenia work for them and for Robert's care. It's their love and faithfulness that made this work. - Ann Schwab, Retired Mental Health Nurse From the Author Foreword When Joan emailed me to ask if I could write a foreword to her book about Robert, there was no way I could deny her request. That is not because, as she says in the book, I have researched the stigma of mental illness. Yes, it is true that I stumbled into a research concern with stigma as I tried to understand how individuals face crisis. Rather, it was because Joan is one of the kindest people I have ever encountered in my life.This was a fact that had amazed me as I learned of the struggles in her own life, with her children, her career, and with the medical system. She had every reason to be angry, to be nasty, and to be closed off, given the hand she had been dealt. Yet, she radiated calm, wisdom, and a sweetness that remains indelible in my mind to this day. I don't exactly recall how I met Joan, whether it was through FACET (Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching), Indiana University's teaching award and community network of professors working to improve higher education, or through the NIMH R24 grant that I received to bring together Indiana researchers working on issues focused on serious mental illness. It matters little. In both venues, Joan was a strong voice of commitment and concern, always with a hopeful view of change that we could make things happen. She came with unique insight that translated into research and then into action. She was among the first to ask (and research) how the clergy saw people with mental illness in their congregations, and how they responded to them. The answer was startling. They didn't see them at all. That is, the clergy reported a welcoming attitude but indicated that they had no individuals with serious mental illness a
