Uninvited Guests: Living With Intrusive Voices

by Sarah Clarke

"Uninvited Guests" is a book about one family's journey with schizophrenia from onset and disbelief through fear and anger to acceptance. The author, Sarah Clarke, shares her stories, which began in a community-center writing class. The freedom to write without judgment or censorship helped her to make sense of her own feelings of frustration, and to accept her son's illness, along with the reality of their changed lives. "Uninvited Guests" takes the reader from the perplexing beginning of "the voices" through the crisis of a psychotic breakdown and hospitalization to a gradual understanding of the disease. This book shares their personal stories, successes and failures and includes helpful strategies for coping with this very debilitating illness.

79 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 8, 2021

About the author

Contains works by multiple authors with the same name

Reviews

[Deirdre Ballou · Rating 5 out of 5]

An easy read with a compelling story and good advice for us all.

If you know or love someone with physical or mental disabilities, this book offers insight to so many of the desperate situations encountered as you strive to handle the everyday challenges that their illness presents. Even if your interaction is limited, we all need to know how to appropriately respond to people with disabilities so we can positively-rather than negatively-affect their day (thus making us better people in the process).