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Gabriela: A Voice for My Daughter

Bobbie Shufani

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Description:A true story advocating for a young woman struggling with mental illness,seizures, and powerful drugs. This mixture became a threat to her survival along with the failures of our healthcare system and having a single parent navigate it all. This story starts after months of unsuccessful attempts to get help for Gabriela. Finally, the police were called early one morning to pull Gabriela out of the Holy water at a local church and she was put on her first psych hold. It was during that hospitalization Gabriela’s psychiatrist determined her psychotic break was, as Gabriela had claimed, the result of the antiepileptic drugs. The continuing refusal of the neurologist to make any adjustments to Gabriela’s medications despite the requests of Gabriela herself, her mother, and the psychiatrist who treated her resulted in a second psychotic break so severe that Gabriela stopped eating, drinking, sleeping, sitting, or speaking. This time Gabriela was effectively abandoned by the neurological community and the only recourse was treatment at a cult-like psychiatric facility that, in the process of rehabilitating her.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gabriela: A Voice for My Daughter. To get started finding Gabriela: A Voice for My Daughter, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 294

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Barbara Shufani

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0692324879

Description: A true story advocating for a young woman struggling with mental illness,seizures, and powerful drugs. This mixture became a threat to her survival along with the failures of our healthcare system and having a single parent navigate it all. This story starts after months of unsuccessful attempts to get help for Gabriela. Finally, the police were called early one morning to pull Gabriela out of the Holy water at a local church and she was put on her first psych hold. It was during that hospitalization Gabriela’s psychiatrist determined her psychotic break was, as Gabriela had claimed, the result of the antiepileptic drugs. The continuing refusal of the neurologist to make any adjustments to Gabriela’s medications despite the requests of Gabriela herself, her mother, and the psychiatrist who treated her resulted in a second psychotic break so severe that Gabriela stopped eating, drinking, sleeping, sitting, or speaking. This time Gabriela was effectively abandoned by the neurological community and the only recourse was treatment at a cult-like psychiatric facility that, in the process of rehabilitating her.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gabriela: A Voice for My Daughter. To get started finding Gabriela: A Voice for My Daughter, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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