Deprived of reason

Deprived of Reason is a work of creative nonfiction that illuminates the beginning stages of a personal experience with chronic mental illness and depicts examples of events chronicled for years in personal diaries and medical records, including bipolar disorder, PTSD, and dissociative disorders. The illustrated memories are sometimes written as jumbled stream-of-thought, as in the over-medicated or manic or psychotic. This series of experiences illuminate how difficult it can be for someone who is mentally ill to maintain the very same personal relationships that would most greatly improve the lives of both the ill person and their significant others. Implications from these experiences reflect on the inadequacies of our mental health system and the relentlessly demanding task of both the supported and supporters in dealing with the individual whose illness, by definition, makes them impaired in perception, communication and behavior. They are therefore compromised at a time when they greatly need to convince others to remain in their lives, to remember the person they are and were when not symptomatic, and to help them navigate and find options in order to find the resources needed to get better.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor dc:publisher

Colorado State University. Libraries

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Authors dc:creator

• Palmquist, Kathleen Ann, author
• Calderazzo, John, advisor
• Thompson, Deborah, committee member
• Griffin, Cindy, committee member

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.

Language dc:language.iso

eng, English

Identifier URI

https://doi.org/10.25675/3.018529

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:mountainscholar.org:10217/82528