The sudden descent of a teenager in psychosis

"On July 5, 1996, my daughter was struck mad. ... He was fifteen years he had learned to talk to me, she had heard her first stories from me ... any day now we are foreigners." This was the harsh reality of Michael Greenberg, author of Hurry Down Sunshine.

This is an inspiring personal story and his father's seemingly deep and abiding love for the daughter of fifteen, Sally, and his sudden descent into psychosis. It 's a story of everyday Michael GreenbergThe devotion to Sally as put together by their psychotic experience. It 's the story of a family, experiences, struggles and frustrations of dealing with mental illness, is a story full of emotion first.

Sally was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, evaluated and diagnosed as bipolar He first started treatment with psychotropic drugs. Every day, Sally's father made the trip to the hospital to spend the best part of the day with his daughter. He says it is "No-Man's Land. "

Michael Greenberg is raised as a boy of five children, one of whom suffered from paranoia and guardians need some help. His brother Michael took over as caretaker adult if his parents could no longer cope. When Sally was admitted to the psychiatric clinic, the mother visited her to explain how she was angry, pregnant and give birth a second time, because their situation at the moment. It 'was born the second son, wasneed support as an adult guardian. Michael's mother was very emphatic in relaying to Michael that mental illness was different from Sally's brother Michael and not hereditary.

When Sally was finally exit from the psychiatric hospital had also continue to be published to take medication and follow a plan of action. Some days a week, the father took her to conduct a clinic with her therapist to do.

At one point, in an attempt to better understand the effects of Sally'sDrugs to "see the world," as Sally saw the world and what they did to his works the body and especially his brain, Mr. Greenberg swallowed a dose of your medication. Almost immediately, he began "to dizziness and away ..."

While at home, Sally's expert has experienced the ups and downs "in and out of psychosis." But eventually the day came back as "a miracle ... the miracle of normal, ordinary existence" occurred only three years later.

Michael Greenberg writesa realistic experience of the history of his family struggle with mental illness. In his experience writing helps us all to our understanding of psychosis and life goes on more battles, frustrations and feelings of individuals and families dealing with mental illness.

Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg, a freelance writer
Vantage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2009, 233 pages