Experiencing and Overcoming Schizoaffective Disorder: A Memoir - Paperback

by Steve Colori (Author)

In this powerful memoir, 20-Time Oxford University Medical Journals Contributor, McLean Hospital Harvard Resident doctor teacher, and Good Men's Project Columnist Steve Colori courageously articulates his experience of facing and overcoming schizoaffective disorder. His personal narrative gives readers insight into the true nature of the illness, providing a lucid description of symptoms such as hallucinations, paranoia, OCD, suicidal thoughts, bipolar disorder, mania, insomnia, family issues, and social dysfunction. Colori explains how he worked through all these symptoms and resolved them. He tells the reader why, at one point, he decided to stop taking medication; and shows why he later changed his mind and permanently resumed taking medication. The book also details a number of therapies that Colori utilized to overcome the disorder-such as talk therapy, journaling, and exposure therapy- which eventually enabled him to advance far beyond recovery.Steve Colori currently works at McLean Hospital as a Peer Specialist. Within his work he teaches McLean hospital's medical staff and resident doctors on a daily basis, providing insight and wisdom towards improving care. Within his work, Steve is a program coordinator, he drafts and provides in-service didactics, he helps teach within the residency program for Harvard Medical School, he works within in-patient, out-patient, and residential settings within the Psychotic Disorders Division providing individual peer to peer work and group facilitation. Steve has published 20 papers with Schizophrenia Bulletin by Oxford Medical Journals and he writes a Mental Health Column titled Steve Colori Talks Mental Health. Steve has lectured throughout the Greater Boston Area including for Harvard Executive Education, Pharmaceutical Companies, NAMI Connecticut, NAMI Massachusetts, NAMI GBCAN, and he lectures regularly at McLean Hospital and semi-annually at Simmons Graduate School of Social Work. To read more of his writing, please visit SteveColori.com. Also, please make sure to read his SECOND BOOK, Thoughts on Therapy, which is a book of his most powerful essays. This book is also available on Amazon.com