Current Issue - Summer 2009

Humble Abode: Recovery starts at home... if you have one

When Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez asked a homeless street musician if he would consider sleeping indoors, the man said, "Oh, no. I wouldn't want to do that." This puzzling response is the premise of The Soloist, a movie based on Lopez' newspaper and book accounts of that homeless man, Nathaniel Ayers.
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Horticultural therapy

After he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1980, Bob Graham watched his life quickly unravel. "For eight years I had revolving door syndrome. I'd take my medication and feel better. Then I'd stop taking it and a few weeks later I'd land back in the psych ward," he remembers. Finally, a sympathetic psychiatrist helped him stabilize his drug regimen and he managed to find a supportive living situation. "But it wasn't until I found Providence Farm that I really got my life back," he remembers.
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Hello Tomorrow

April 1987: I traveled solo to San Francisco to visit my cousin Robert. He lived in a flat three blocks away from Golden Gate Park, where I took long walks, and wrote in my journal as I sipped tea in the Japanese tea garden. It was my first taste of freedom before schizophrenia hit; even then all was not as it seemed.
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Schizophrenia Around the World

As far as mental health professionals can ascertain, schizophrenia is an equal-opportunity disease. It is recorded in all nations, at all income levels, and in virtually every culture around the globe.
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SZ Magazine provides readers with up-to-date, informative, and inspirational content about schizophrenia. It addresses medical symptoms, treatments, therapy side effects, pharmaceutical information, and lifestyle issues. SZ Magazine provides tools to help overcome barriers and promote behavioral changes. It empowers and motivates readers to become invested in their own recovery and adherence.