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Lädt ... My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A memoir (2017. Auflage)von Mark Lukach
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I don't usually read memoirs, so I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked this up, but the subject matter sounded intriguing. I've had anxiety my entire life, and I battled with postpartum depression after my daughter was born, so mental health is a topic that's always interested me. I was worried perhaps this would be too heartbreaking for me, and too difficult to read, but I was pleasantly surprised. Lukach handles his wife's mental illness with so much compassion -- and yet he's realistic as well. I particularly appreciated the fact that he didn't gloss over his own hardship as caretaker of his mentally ill wife, and his young son. That kind of nonstop caregiving takes a toll, and I was glad he explained how he handled that aspect of his responsibilities. My only slight complaint is that I wish there was a way to get Giulia's viewpoint in the book as well, because from Mark's perspective she comes across as incredibly self-absorbed, and a pretty terrible, distant mother who has no real relationship with her son. That may or may not be the case, and I would have liked to know her take on parenting, marriage, and mental illness. But perhaps that's for another book. Overall, this was a very loving and authentic take on what it's like to care for a spouse suffering from a very serious mental illness. I appreciated Mark Lukach's honest handling of a difficult topic. This is a well-written book by a husband who loves his wife beyond all measure and about how difficult it is to be part of someone's life who experiences psychosis and suicidal depression. Psychosis effects the entire family - spouse, parents, child. Mark Lukach is able to share his (and his wife's) experience without succumbing to a "poor me" attitude. While clearly life and their relationship changes and is very difficult both during and after a psychotic break, there is a maturity in Mark and Guilia's love and devotion to each other. I tend to stay away from Memoirs because it has been my experience that many of them are not well written. That is not true of My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward and I highly recommend it. I think this book was a very honest look at one person's experience caring for somebody who unexpectedly developed a mental illness much later than most people do. I think all the reviewers calling the author mean and rude should honestly assess how they would act under similar circumstances. That said, something about this memoir was just... not very compelling. Far be it from me to give people's lives star ratings, but this one was worth a three. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love. Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that her loved ones were not safe. Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was born, Giulia had another breakdown, and then a third a few years after that. Pushed to the edge of the abyss, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended. A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor, radiant with compassion, and written with dazzling lyricism, Lukach's is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife's mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers' faith in the power of love. .Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Overall a great read and a great insight to the chaos and uncertainty of dealing with mental illness and the health care system. ( )