Overview

Travis talks about his day today. Today was a day that Travis had to pick up his medication. He explains how bears and ghosts keep him from getting his medication sometimes by telling him that the doctor and pharmacist are trying to kill him with the medicine. Travis hears voices of people talking to him and telling him that the medication is going to kill him. Learn how every day skills are hard. Travis never imagined life being so hard but the psychosis makes life very interesting and scary. Travis hates waiting in line for his medication because everyone is talking about him and telling him that he is a bad person. Travis talks about how the voices and hallucinations have caused him to do some crazy things in life. Travis talks about not being able to tell if what is happening in his mind is really happening or if it is just his brain playing tricks on him. Sometimes it is like a movie or video game playing in his head and he has to try and tell if what's happening is real or fake. There are positive and negative symptoms of Schizophrenia and Travis will address all of these issues in this book. People with Schizophrenia do often commit suicide. They commit suicide with both the positive symptoms and the negative symptoms. Sadly there are more suicides because of negative symptoms than there are positive symptoms. Travis wants the reader to imagine what it would be like to hear voices, have hallucinations, see bears and ghosts, and talking to spirits. Reading this book will give you a new and fresh perspective of what living with Schizophrenia might be like. Travis shares about his day and trying to pick up his medicine as well as gives you insight into what living with Schizophrenia is like in this brilliant book. Here is an excerpt from the book. They are so loud. They just yell and it feels like they are just coming through the public address system at Wal Mart. When I hear them screaming at me I try to squeeze myself and squeeze my brains out. I try very hard to hit myself in the head to make sure that my voices and hallucinations go away but that does not always happen. Sometimes they come back louder and stronger when I hit them and fight them off. They are bad bears and ghosts. The ghosts and the bears are mean and I feel like they are trying to hurt me and kill me.

Full Product Details

9781530825011

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

I'm Travis. I'm a 30 year old author of books about autism. I like football, basketball, tennis, hiking, music, rock, writing, reading, and talking. I have overcome the greatest challenge in my life. I no longer cope with autism I live happily with it. I have some really amazing friends and a truly inspirational and awesome best friend! Life had always been a struggle for me until I started taking responsibility for my own life and situation. I spent a long time wanting and expecting others to fix or improve my life and make it what I wanted it to be. Truth be known, I was the only one who could and can do that. Now I write books about autism and how I am taking responsibility for my own life. What a difference I've seen in life. Life is what we choose to make of it. I don't want to just be known as a guy with Autism. I want to be known as a guy who's doing something awesome with Autism! Travis is dually diagnosed with Autism and Schizophrenia. Bibliography

Tab Content 6

Countries Available