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Lifelines in the Dark: Communication Strategies
Lifelines in the Dark Communication Strategies Author:Ellis Amdur Lifelines in the Dark shows you how to communicate with your relative when (s)he is experiencing acute symptoms of mental illness. The author gives you a "skill map," a range of communication tactics that cover many symptoms, such as the presence of paranoia, mania, hallucinations, delusions, and other manifestations of the illness. With this ex... more »pert guidance, you will learn to reach out to the person behind the illness. "Words do not cure severe psychiatric illness," says author Amdur, "but we can choose to speak to the illness or speak to the person who is ill. And when we do the latter, like a lifeline thrown in the dark to someone in a stormy sea, they have something to hold onto so that they are not overwhelmed by the waves."« less