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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781400033614
ISBN number: 1400033616
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: July 11, 2006
Publishing house: Anchor
Release Date: July 11, 2006
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Trina is eighteen and suffers from bi-polar disorder, making her paranoid, wild, and violent. Frightened by her own child, Keri searches for help, quickly learning that the mental health community can only offer her a seventy-two hour hold. After these three days Trina is off on her own again.
Fed up with the bureaucracy and determined to save her daughter by any means necessary, Keri signs on for an illegal intervention known as The Program, launching them both on a terrifying journey.
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As the mother of a child with multiple mental health issues (I've been lucky so far, but I know others...), I was very invested in this book. I found it mostly accurate, especially in regard to dealing with an adult family member who is not able to properly care for him/herself and the peculiar pecking order of whose child is sicker than whose, from a group of people who "should know better". (Heck, we're all just trying to get by.) The prose, while not spectacular, flowed smoothly and kept my attention. My complaints- an "action-adventure" section near the end of the book. I guess it was to show us how desperate parents can become, but it seemed contrived and out of place. The book would have been better without it. I would have liked to hear more about the grandmother, who was squeezed into the end where everything was at least somewhat resolved far too quickly, like the deadline was arriving and the publisher was at the door. While the author was far too realistic to give us a "everyone's fine, every thing's perfect" ending, for a group of people who have been muddling through an entire book, it felt too fast to settle them all down in the last 2 chapters. Nonetheless, much more good than bad- worth reading.
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I enjoyed reading this book. As a psychiatric nurse, I found the book to be a realistic view of the mental health system and the heart break of having a sick child or family member who is not med compliant and is in and out of the hospital.
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I thought this book was powerful in showing the reader the actions of a particularly mentally ill person and the pains that a caretaker my face in caring for one. At times, I felt my heart pound with fear and anger, then soften with sorrow and worry. This story has great characterization, evokes much emotion and is thought provoking. I'd highly recommend this as a good read.
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BeBe Moore Campbell does an excellent job at discussing some very real issues that plague our community...the lack of good/restorative mental health care. Being one who can identify with much of what Trina experienced, it was interesting to see how Campbell captured the true essence of mental illness...specifically BiPolour Disorder.
I could only give it 3 stars because and only because it wasn't a real page turner. You wanted to read it, but what motivated me was wanting to get to the end...not page turning exhillaration and excitement. It was a good book. Campbell did a good job...it almost seems like it was based on a true story. That is how vivid the characters and experiences were.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever dealt with a mental illnes; has family or friends that battle mental illness; or wants to learn more about mental illness. It was a needed book. Kudos to Campbell.
Peace and Blessings.
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An excellent story in which the reader is taken down that dark pathway of mental illness. The suffering Keri has to undergo is palpable and we weep with her as in order to get help for her bi-polar daughter, Trina, she traverses a complicated system full of mindless bureaucracy. Many other intense subjects are dealt with in this novel as well.
Superb writing style. I liked those metaphors of slavery time, especailly the final one about Ol' Harriet. Well done! Ms Campbell will surely live on in her works.
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