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This renowned journalist's typical Pulitzer Prize receiving analysis of schizophrenia - now reissued with a new postscript - follows a flamboyant and fiercely smart young female as she battles in the throes of mental health issues. "Sylvia Frumkin" was created in 1948 and commenced showing signs or symptoms of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent another seventeen years in and out of mental corporations. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan had taken a pastime in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life: Chatting with her, listening to her monologues, resting in on consultations with doctors - even, for a period, sleeping in the bed next to her in a psychiatric middle. With Sheehan, we become witness to Sylvia's plight: Her psychotic episodes, the medical battle to control her symptoms, and the overburdened clinics that, more often than not, she was obliged to call home. The resulting book, first publicized in 1982, was hailed as an extraordinary achievements: Harrowing, humanizing, moving, and bitingly funny. Now, some two decades later, Is There ROOM on Earth for Me proceeds to set the typical for accounts of mental health issues.
