Cartea Experiencing and Overcoming Schizoaffective Disorder PDF

This memoir is a collection of powerful and insightful recovery based information from Steve Colori\'s experiences with facing and overcoming schizoaffective disorder. The memoir is well-written and personable and provides great insight into the true nature of schizoaffective disorder. He provides a lucid description of symptoms such as referential thinking, hallucinations, paranoia, OCD, suicidal thoughts, and social dysfunction and informs the reader how he worked through and resolved them. Steve informs us why he decided not to take medication and also the reasons he later changed his mind and went back on it. The book also details a number of therapies that Steve utilized to overcome the disorder and advance far beyond recovery such as talk therapy, journaling, and exposure therapy. Steve Colori has eight articles published with Oxford Medical Journals, he has been writing freelance for Mclean Hospital since 2011, and he has three articles published with The Good Men\'s Project. He has lectured Mclean\'s Harvard Residents quarterly since 2012, he lectures regularly at Simmons College, and he has also lectured at Mass General Hospital\'s Schizophrenia Day.