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Not exactly a psychiatric nurse but elyn saks has schizophrenia and she did something similar (link below with her book) I highly recommend reading her book because part of her inspiration for writing it was for people who have a diagnosis of schizoprenia. She is absolutely brilliant and highlights some of her difficulties.
https://www.amazon.com/Center-Cannot-Hold-Journey-Through/dp/1401309445
Alive: the story of a plane crash in the Andes, where the survivors had to resort to eating each other. This is one of the greatest books, and stories of survival you will ever read.
https://www.amazon.com/Alive-Survivors-Piers-Paul-Read/dp/038000321X
https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Loathing-Las-Vegas-American/dp/0679785892
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>>>>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a 1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson, illustrated by Ralph Steadman. The book is a roman à clef, rooted in autobiographical incidents. The story follows its protagonist, Raoul Duke, and his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, as they descend on Las Vegas to chase the American Dream through a drug-induced haze, all the while ruminating on the failure of the 1960s countercultural movement. The work is Thompson's most famous book, and is noted for its lurid descriptions of illegal drug use and its early retrospective on the culture of the 1960s. Its popularization of Thompson's highly subjective blend of fact and fiction has become known as gonzo journalism.
I actually ended up finding the book, but the one you recommended is actually pretty good too, thanks :)
If you’re interested in the one I was looking for, here’s the link, turns out the biker gang was the mongols, not the hell’s angels
I don't have time to explain to you the substantial and monumental differences between the two. But do yourself a favor and educate yourself before continuing to make such an ignorant comparison. I suggest you start by reading (A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870)[https://www.amazon.com/House-Full-Females-Mormonism-1835-1870/dp/0307594904] by Harvard history professor Dr. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. He work outlines how plural marriage actually expanded the rights and freedoms of women in Utah compared to the condition women in most of the Western world faced and how plural marriage is directly tied to an increase in women's education, Utah women gaining the right to vote, and the power of when to choose to have children, among others.
For the educated on the issue there is no comparison. Something you would understand if you read their actual words instead of making what you surely thought was a deadly riposte but which is entirely uninformed.
There is a popular book The Center Can ot Hold , where the author talks about her journey with Schizophrenia. In the book, she talks about her breaks she had to take in her education, and how she dealt with going back.
NTA.
Your wife needs a lot of therapy. What's scary is that your son may need help in future, and she is essentially making it impossible for him to approach her. I hope she can get her head around that - what she is doing is the worst possible outcome.
Good luck OP, and well done supporting your son. Out of curiosity have you read The Centre Cannot Hold? It's an incredible book written by someone with schizophrenia, and her experiences. No doubt you have heard of it, but if not it is well worth looking at.
A House Full of Females is a great book on polygamy and women in the early church by a Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard professor. It uses primary sources (mostly journals), goes a lot into women giving blessings, speaking in tongues, and prophesying with the explicit permission of Joseph Smith.
Author is LDS in good standing.
My only criticism is that most of the sources are journals of “Mormon royalty” - Wilford woodruff and the wives of Joseph Smith and Brigham young. In defense of the author, those are the interesting journals that have survived and are accessible to historians.
https://www.amazon.com/House-Full-Females-Mormonism-1835-1870/dp/0307594904
Not about Alaska but this book is about a ranger who went missing in the High Sierra’s. I read the book and loved it. Passed it onto a friend who then passed it onto another friend. Couldn’t recommend it enough
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Season-P-S-Eric-Blehm/dp/0060583010
You will enjoy it... really cool history of the area.
Also kind of interesting... Alone and Under. Its a true story of a ATF agent infiltrating the mongols in sunland/tujunga in 70s. The whole book is is set along the 2/210 frwy corridor.
He talks about a bard called the place which used to be on foothill. I remember driving by that place as a kid thinking it looked jacked. It was jacked...
This is a great book: "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age". Describes the creation of so many things we take for granted now (ethernet, laser printing, guis, oop). And it really does capture how Xerox corporate couldn't figure out what to do with PARC.
I have not read this book, but it's on my to-read list: A House Full of Females by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Sounds like it might be instructive for what you're looking for.
Find a therapist. Telemedicine makes it easier. Specifically a trauma therapist. Someone who specializes in trauma therapy and skills. You can talk over the phone. Work on mindfulness skills. Dialectic skills. Cognitive distortions etc. Therapy can help us get out of our minds and gain control. I’ve also found listening to Tony Robins or Jack Canfield helpful. Have you read Dharma Punx dharma punxby Noah Levine? Good book with life lessons. Like box breathing. The Seals train with this technique. box breathing technique . Everyone’s journey is different. Just posting on this thread is a good start/step. Good luck. You are not alone.
Also this dude currently kinda sucks but back in the day he was my mentor and teacher and at the time he wrote this book I decided to get sober. He does document using H and other drugs / drinking and how he found Buddhism and meditation. I found it to be super helpful as long as reading about using won’t trigger you it’s worth a look ! https://www.amazon.com/Dharma-Punx-Noah-Levine/dp/0060008954
Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote a great book on the history of the practice of polygamy by the mainline church and its impact on things like women's rights. It is called A House Full of Females and would help you see it form the perspective of women living in polygamous homes in the 1800s.
Read a memoir from Elyn Saks: she has schizophrenia and is now a professor teaching others about mental illness.
From Amazon: “Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has ongoing major episodes of the illness. The Center Cannot Hold is the eloquent, moving story of Elyn's life, from the first time that she heard voices speaking to her as a young teenager, to attempted suicides in college, through learning to live on her own as an adult in an often terrifying world. Saks discusses frankly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, the voices in her head telling her to kill herself (and to harm others); as well the incredibly difficult obstacles she overcame to become a highly respected professional. This beautifully written memoir is destined to become a classic in its genre.
The title is a line from "The Second Coming," a poem by William Butler Yeats, which is alluded to in the book.”
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness https://www.amazon.com/dp/1401309445/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_7WB0zbW6G2GKV
yeah. i'm not sure if that's a relatively new term or something but we just called them all fire whirls. that is what I'm talking about. They do sound awful. i didn't realize they themselves cause so much damage, i was just told that if you were in a part of the fire producing that, then you're probably already boxed in and about to die. i can't find confirmation anywhere so maybe it was just some horror stories our WF trainers like to tell students or something. I'm reminded of the book Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean (of A River Runs Through It fame if you don't recognize the name) that tells the story of the Mann Gulch fire. Norman, I believe was able to interview the IC on that jump (i forget his name). He may have talked about it in that book but it's been so long I can't remember. Great book. Very heartbreaking though.
For those of you still reading books, Dealers of Lightning is an incredible book that talks about working at PARC during that time.
Not the book you're asking for, but check out "The Last Season" by Eric Blehm. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Season-P-S-Eric-Blehm/dp/0060583010
It's an adventure biography about Randy Morgenson, a Sierra legend, family friend of Ansel Adams and protector of nature. Spoilers in this link: http://www.backpacker.com/survival/survival-stories/missing-in-action-how-a-backcountry-ranger-with-28-years-experience-disappeared/
> is it frowned upon to make up something like this just because I want to? Or should I change it to fit some sort of real agency?
It'll be entertaining fiction at best, and trolling at worst.
If you write about something you have no understanding of, you're either going to be "on the mark" when you describe how procedures are done, or totally wrong and pretty much turn off a part of the audience who are knowledgeable in such matters and dismiss the rest of your story as unworthy — or worse, open it up to severe ridicule.
You have an undercover unit. Start researching what undercover task forces or operatives do. You can start with Under and Alone by William Queen.
Here's another account (different agent) in a short interview form → www.lamag.com/culturefiles/the-cop-who-infiltrated-southern-californias-most-notorious-biker-gangs/
Any particular video games/novels/tv? Which ones are you hooked on the most right now?
I've been hooked on R6: Siege lately, and just got Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, going to start reading that after I finish Cosmos
Elyn Saks, in her book The Center Cannot Hold, wrote about being hospitalized in the UK and in America.
It was WAY better for her in the UK. What happened to her in the US is part of the reason it took me so long to seek treatment (though I've heard from several people here that had positive experiences being committed in the US).
edit: her experience in the UK was positive.
Judging from your mindset, I strongly recommend Young Men and Fire, the fateful story of a group of early smokejumpers who died to a blowup fire in Montana.
It's an exhaustive research account that takes into account all the energy factors of the situation from the way the fire was fed through wind, fuel, brush (grass as opposed to canopy) and the more dramatic energy factor of the boys who ran hundreds of yards up a near vertical incline in what they knew would be the last footrace of their lives. He talks about which ones went which ways, why they veered and what places they chose for refuge, and then tries in the most humane way possible to explain why the few lived and the rest died.
I enjoyed reading Noah Levine's Dharma Punx -the story of how he kicked drugs using meditation -- so much that I've been listening to his 'Against The Stream' dharma talks for years. He's stayed clean now for 20 years. Apparently people in his community have started an alt (or addition) to AA called RefugeRecovery that aims to help people deal with their addictions via buddhism/meditation. It's early days but there might be a group in your area.
You might gain some benefit from reading Dharma Punx by Noah Levine. It's not the be-all, end-all of Buddhism, not by a long shot, but I found it a really easy way to access an intro to Buddhism when I was in a really rough place in life.
No, I know that, I mean didn't most of the FLDS crew move to the YFZ ranch in Eldorado...
But I was thinking specifically of the Jessops. Looked it up because I was curious. And the raid was in 2008.
Edit: That Krakauer book is really good... heart breaking at parts. Escape by Carolyn Jessop is also really really good.
If you want to read a story about how fast-moving and deadly wildfires can be, read Norman Maclean's 'Young Men And Fire' about the Mann Gulch Fire in 1949.
FWIW, Norman Maclean is the same guy who wrote 'A River Runs Through It.' He's no slouch as a writer, and the subject matter/narrative is at once informative and terrifying.
Edit: From Wiki: >"Dodge stated the updrafts generated by the fire moving past him were so intense they caused him to be "lifted off the ground" several times. Of those crew members caught in the oxygen demanding main fire, unburnt patches underneath their bodies indicated they had suffocated for lack of air before the fire caught them."
I read the book Escape in high school about the FLDS. It is an interesting and terrifying look into the life of a polygamist's wife and her eventual "escape" from the life.
My girlfriend who is ex FLDS went to this www.smilesfordiversity.org organization to get help with college finances when she left the religion. They didn't help her because she had parents that had left the religion too, but they've helped quite a few other kids that needed it. They don't just help with school, in some cases they set them up with everything they need. They also helped Carolyn Jessop, author of Escape. If you're wanting to donate, this is a good place to start.
The first hour's all waiting...
and then about halfway through its second hour...
you start cursing the creep who burned you because nothing's happening.
And then... zang!
~hst, f+l