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# The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A review, but a suggestion too...
*by S***A on January 30, 2012*

Well, I think this book is maybe the best book that I read in my whole life. Besides tell us the story of her life, Elyn Saks tell us what a person suffering from schizophrenia thinks and feels during her crisis. Off course that each person is different, but to "healthy" people, know about this is a invaluable knowledge. I was very surprised when she describes that she was shamed because while she was tied during a crisis, in the hospital, the door was open and all people that passed in front that door can see her. Usually we think that mental patients do not completely realize the reactions of the others, so, probably a lot of us don't bother in completely hide our discomfort when in presence of their crisis, probably hurting them still more. This book can teach all of us to be more sensible and solidary to mental ill people, but it is a distressful reading, because we suffer together with the author, chapter after chapter. I did a bad choice to decide reading all book in the bus, because in the last chapter I had to use a lot of self control to avoid to cry.One reviewer seem a little uncomfortable because the author repeatedly cites her intellectual merits, but I think that is absolutely necessary, because the healthy people usually think of mentally ill people like mentally lame, and probably it is not easy to break this misconception, so, her emphasis is welcome and is not a sign of poor writing, but of good writing abilities. She knows what is important to reiterate to her message can be understood. You don't break prejudices only explaining fact after fact, prejudices are hypnotic standards of thought, so you need treat them according and hit the same key again and again and again...Well, I am not that kind of reviewer that put a summary of each chapter, if you want this, try the "Look inside" feature. I think that is much more useful to tell what a person think and feels about the book, because these human reactions are what we share in commom and says more about the books than a summary.Now, I want to say some few things about this sickness, and if you are a materialistic person or a Christian person ( the type of person that think that the bible has all answers), stop to read here, to avoid waste your time.Elyn Saks describes some situations about her "delusions" that seems clearly psychic attacks and this hypothesis should be checked too, together with the schizophrenia hypothesis. In our materialistic society any time when a person see, hears or feels anything that is not physically present, this is interpreted like madness. It is so with astral projection, with see/hear spirits, auras, elementals, or pre/retrocognition. The materialistic point of view is very ignorant about this matters, so, its conclusions has completely no value in this subject. The fact the medicines were able to control or stop the delusions only shows the the medicines can block the perceptions of the person. Off course, a good part of the psychic attack is nothing more than spiritual bullying, so, if you can prevent the victim of perceive the bullying, you can block the negatives effects of the psychic attack, WHILE YOU TAKE YOUR MEDICINES. However, like the most in the medicine, you are only treating the symptoms, not the cause, that MAY be spiritual.A lot of things that Elyn Saks saw or thought during her crisis ( and a lot of mental diseases, but not all of them) , mainly her thoughts about she worth nothing, are the usual technique in psychic attacks, and if she had knew some reliable psychic ( the reliable never will charge any money for this) maybe she can find another answers to her situation, and another solutions.I know that this maybe sounds a little strange in the American culture, but if you can tolerates learn about spiritualism, you can discover that there are more facts than beliefs about this situations. However, IF situations the Elyn tells us about were, in fact, psychic attack, not schizophrenia, even so they are very hard to solve, because there are strong reasons to this kind of problem, usually a person never faces hard problems without strong reasons to them, and in this kind of situation, I mean, psychic attack, usually the offenders were, usually, victims in past incarnations, and the actual victim is, usually (but not always), the tormentor. Silt the actual victim with medicines can help her, but will not solve the problem, IF THE PROBLEMS WERE NOT MENTAL. Anyway, only a psychic can say if there were any real entities attacking the victim or if all was only delusion, a materialistic doctor is not able to conclude nothing about this. In a ideal world, the psychiatrist should be a psychic too.To those people that has any curiosity about the several problems and nuances of psychic attacks and methods of solutions that SOME GROUPS of spiritualists uses, this book has a lot of study cases:Spirit and Matter: New Horizons for MedicineI think that people suffering with mental disorders lose a lot to confine themselves to materialistic point of view, but anyone has the right to only accept the solutions that are according with their beliefs, even if this only treat the symptoms, not the cause.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Could hardly put it down
*by L***L on May 1, 2025*

Terrific engagement and sharing in the life of a courageous woman.A beautifully worded story of her life and one of the most readable booksI have ever encountered.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extraordinary and Educational Memoir
*by K***  on September 29, 2024*

I really enjoyed reading this memoir. It gave a real and candid glimpse into the condition of Schizophrenia and detailed how the author overcame the obstacles of this condition and offered hope to those suffering with the condition as well. I appreciate how the author did not hold back, and painted how intense and frightening psychosis can be, and how even more frightening and frustrating it can be to seek help for this serious condition. My only negative criticism I have is the book did become repetitive at times, especially towards the end when the author kept detailing how she kept going off medication, had a rebound in psychosis, and would then go back on medication. There were also some loose ends in the book that I really wished the author tied up, like what happened with the Tardive Dyskinesia? Lastly, I found that the overall flow of the writing was limited at times. However, despite it’s shortcomings, I found this memoir to be wonderful and would definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested in knowing more about Schizophrenia.

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