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From the best-selling author of the classic book on ADD Driven to Distraction, a memoir of the strange upbringing that shaped Dr. Edward M. Hallowell's celebrated career.
When Edward M. Hallowell was 11, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would have called this psychosis. But young Edward (Ned) took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what "psychiatrist" meant. With a psychotic father, an alcoholic mother, an abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behaviour from those around him and to a mind he felt he couldn't always control.
The voice turned out to be right. Now, decades later, Hallowell is a leading expert on attention disorders and the author of 20 books, including Driven to Distraction, the work that introduced ADD to the world. In Because I Come from a Crazy Family, he tells the often strange story of a childhood marked by what he calls the "WASP triad" of alcoholism, mental illness, and politeness and explores the wild wish, surging beneath his incredible ambition, that he could have saved his own family of drunk, crazy, and well-intentioned eccentrics - and himself.
Because I Come from a Crazy Family is an affecting, at times harrowing, ultimately moving memoir about crazy families and where they can lead, about being called to the mental health profession and about the unending joys and challenges that come with helping people celebrate who they are.
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- Steve Steinmetz
- 06-29-18
Love and connection permeates through this book!
This book should be a best seller! Dr. Hallowell has done an amazing job bringing to life a memoir of different family members, friends, professors, practitioners, and clients that shaped and molded him to become a world-renowned psychiatrist with best-selling books on various mental health issues facing the greater public.
This book made me laugh out loud at the different idiosyncrasies that people possess that make them special and unique individuals. This book made me think about mental health and gave me a new perspective on the humanness that we all share. Such as needing to connect at a higher level of consciousness in order to really help someone and support them in times of crisis, difficulties or challenging issues. This book made me more spiritually aware that God can play a larger part in my life if I choose to look at things through the lens that eventually we all have the same outcome in this world. It's essential to do good and help in any way we can to create more beauty and connection in this world through our choice of words, actions, and thoughts. This book made me cry and mourn the loss of people that have lost their lives either due to lack of treatment, circumstances beyond their control, or mental illness. Each person has their story to tell and in death, that story comes to an end but their legacy lives on through the people that they connected with in their life.
I learned a lot from this book and I will read it again to gain more insight in the future because it is packed full of depth that deserves multiple reads. I would recommend this book to anyone who knows someone that has a mental illness, a difficult family life due to alcoholism or drug abuse, anyone who wants to become a Doctor, and most of all people that want to understand how to connect with others on a spiritual and emotional level seldom felt in everyday life.
My only critique of this audible presentation was the performance done by Paul Boehmer. I thought it was great but I really had difficulty relating to him as Dr. Hallowell at first. Over time though his voice grew on me and I liked how he used different inflections for the characters, his cadence fluctuation, and his east coast accent.
This should be in your book collection and I really think you will enjoy learning about Dr. Hallowell's journey through life and his amazing family members that provided him with a greater capacity to forgive, love, and cherish all people in this world especially those who have difficulty reciprocating that love due to mental illness and disorders.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-21-18
Hallowell never disappoints.
Again, Ed Hallowell has delivered a down to earth description of hard to swallow life “stuff”. It is more colorful and descriptive than his previous books, perhaps it is because it is his family story, not a story born of his years in psychiatry. For as long as I can remember he has offered hope through education and advice for managing ADHD. How brave to share so openly in this book about his chaotic upbringing. I think many will receive comfort in knowing no family is perfect and maybe coming from a messy family with mental illness does not mean one must settle. Perhaps it’s possible to become a best selling author, psychiatrist and international expert who changes lives. Thank you Dr. Hallowell for sharing your story.
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- allison k pellegrino
- 07-26-18
Yay Dr. Hallowell!
I enjoyed this book enormously! I have the good fortune of knowing Dr. Hallowell personally and I am grateful in saying that he has been extremely helpful to me and my family.
His honesty and candor shown here in this book is in keeping with the person he is and the truly excellent psychiatrist he is as well. This illustration of his own life here allows people in general, not just his patients, see that mental illness is something that can be discussed and SHOULD be discussed more openly.
I recommend this book highly. At face value it is entertaining and well written, but beyond that it is an honest and straight forward account of Dr. Hallowell’s complicated, messy at times, but ultimately happy and certainly successful life. I’m grateful he took the time to share it with us.
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- GB
- 07-28-20
Genuine and sincere and great
Started less than 24 hours ago. This is where the hyper focused mind went. Finished it, and enjoyed it thoroughly with many smiles.
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- Hillarie
- 11-11-18
Couldn't take it
it's asmall thing, but "iconoclast" 3x's in the first 10 min did it for me!
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- Becky Ellison
- 10-06-18
underwhelming
After listening to Running with Scissors and Educated I was all geared up for a mind bending romp and ended up with a snooze fest. The story should be interesting, but the characters come off as mono-dimentional and leave my mind wandering. Furthermore, the vioce of the narrator is annoying and the flow of the book seems random and the story line never seems to get to the point. I honestly didn't finish it.
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- Beens
- 08-20-18
Beautiful story!
What a beautiful memoir of a person’s life. Dr. Hallowell is clearly intelligent, so insightful about his life experiences, and shares heartache and love with equal wit and intensity. What a gift to the world, especially people who suffer from mental health issues, to know that those issues can be addressed and overcome. I wish he was my doctor. Thank you!
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- Daddy R
- 01-16-23
Kindness rules‼️
I LOVE this book. Well written & I often found myself knotting through out the book. Thanks to Audible to put this great book into audiobook format🤩
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- Happy Happy Hippo
- 07-28-22
Inattentive ADHD or ADD???
Good book, but he confused me by calling Inattentive ADHD - ADD.... This book was published after the DSM-5 and he still holds an active license.... why use the wrong name for the diagnosis?
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- Sharlotte
- 07-08-19
Fantastic Narration and Story!
Wow is this book good! I loved it! Perfect marriage between author and narrator of a delightfully engaging story.
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- RuthieP
- 06-22-23
A blessing for anyone, like me, who needs it!
If you also come from a crazy family & know you’ve spent much of your life clinging on by your fingertips, it’s such a relief to read about other people who started out the same way - but particularly those who you already know are successful, in the generally accepted sense. It’s both fascinating to realise that your own crazy isn’t the only type & educational to discover how other people manage to survive their own trauma/s sufficiently to earn a spot in the top leagues of the neurotypical world. Despite the mental health challenges which we all start out thinking is just normal & at some point, occasionally in a blinding flash, get slapped round the face with the knowledge that we’re not & never will be!
This is a wonderful book & I loved it. I’m sure I’ll return to re-read it & there are very few books that make me feel that way. If you come from a crazy family or place in the world & are neurodiverse, I expect you’ll really enjoy it. If you’re neurotypical you probably won’t understand all of it so don’t worry about it.
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- Jacquie Hamel
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Very interesting book
I love this book and I've listened to it 3 times now. it's great.
It's one of the best books I've read!
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- Anonymous User
- 01-13-22
Kept me entertained for days!
I really enjoyed this story and think it deserves more stars. Edward has a very good memory for life events (probably assisted by many years on the psychotherapists couch). As someone who also comes from a non conventional family I thoroughly enjoyed hearing about someone else’s family story. Seems to be told very honestly too.
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- Chris Burrows
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Rambling and dull
Boring. I really hoped this would be an interesting story but it just wasn't. The narrator sounds like an old money toff, which suits the story perfectly. The author's family and life story doesn't sound crazy to me at all, despite their best efforts to portray it as such.
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- reneefayeo
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Great book! Great performance!
Coming from a crazy family myself, I could really relate to this book. Thanks Ned Hallowell for inspiring me to beat the odds in my own life and help others in my career. Hallowell writes this with his heart, and I loved every minute. Very interesting read! Highly recommend.
I also loved the narration by Paul Boehmer.
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True stories are more bizarre than any fiction, and Dr. Gary Small knows this best. After 30 distinguished years of psychiatry and groundbreaking research on the human brain, Dr. Small has seen it all - now he is ready to open his office doors for the first time and tell all about the most mysterious, intriguing, and bizarre patients of his career. The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head is a spellbinding record of the doctor's most bewildering cases.
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90% Useless Information
- By Think B4 Eating on 10-01-10
By: Gary Small M.D., and others
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Married to Distraction
- Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption
- By: Edward Hallowell, Sue Hallowell, Melissa Orlov
- Narrated by: Edward Hallowell, Sue Hallowell
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. Now Edward M. Hallowell, the bestselling co-author of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, teams up with his wife, Sue George Hallowell, a couples' therapist, to explain the subtle but dangerous toll today's overstretched, undernurtured lifestyle takes on our most intimate relationship.
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Seems angrier than it has to be.
- By Stacy McVay on 02-24-16
By: Edward Hallowell, and others
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My Lobotomy
- A Memoir
- By: Howard Dully, Charles Fleming
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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"In 1960 I was given a transorbital, or 'ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some 'tests'. It took 10 minutes and cost 200 dollars." Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy of Sophoclean proportions.
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Freeman's Folly
- By James Gordon on 10-28-07
By: Howard Dully, and others
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Normal Sucks
- How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
- By: Jonathan Mooney
- Narrated by: Jonathan Mooney
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn - individually, uniquely, and with advantages and upshots to every type of brain and body. He explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when they’re trapped in environments that label them, shame them, and tell them, even in subtle ways, that they are the problem.
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Beautiful
- By Tasha on 09-30-19
By: Jonathan Mooney
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Reversed
- A Memoir
- By: Lois E. Letchford
- Narrated by: Lois Letchford
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Lois Letchford’s dyslexia came to light at the age of 39 when she faced teaching her seven-year-old, nonreading son Nicholas. Examining her reading failure caused her to adapted and change lessons for her son. The results were dramatic. Lois qualified as a reading specialist to use her nontraditional background, multicontinental experience and passion to assist other failing students.
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Lost me over one line
- By Amazon Customer on 12-19-22
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The Quiet Room: A Journey out of the Torment of Madness
- By: Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Gregory Abbey, Cheryl Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage. At 17, Lori Schiller was the perfect child - the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia.
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Mental Health Care in America
- By Dee Garza on 02-29-20
By: Lori Schiller, and others
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The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head
- A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases
- By: Gary Small M.D., Gigi Vorgan
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Story
True stories are more bizarre than any fiction, and Dr. Gary Small knows this best. After 30 distinguished years of psychiatry and groundbreaking research on the human brain, Dr. Small has seen it all - now he is ready to open his office doors for the first time and tell all about the most mysterious, intriguing, and bizarre patients of his career. The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head is a spellbinding record of the doctor's most bewildering cases.
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90% Useless Information
- By Think B4 Eating on 10-01-10
By: Gary Small M.D., and others
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Married to Distraction
- Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption
- By: Edward Hallowell, Sue Hallowell, Melissa Orlov
- Narrated by: Edward Hallowell, Sue Hallowell
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. Now Edward M. Hallowell, the bestselling co-author of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, teams up with his wife, Sue George Hallowell, a couples' therapist, to explain the subtle but dangerous toll today's overstretched, undernurtured lifestyle takes on our most intimate relationship.
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Seems angrier than it has to be.
- By Stacy McVay on 02-24-16
By: Edward Hallowell, and others
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My Lobotomy
- A Memoir
- By: Howard Dully, Charles Fleming
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
"In 1960 I was given a transorbital, or 'ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some 'tests'. It took 10 minutes and cost 200 dollars." Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy of Sophoclean proportions.
-
-
Freeman's Folly
- By James Gordon on 10-28-07
By: Howard Dully, and others
-
Normal Sucks
- How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
- By: Jonathan Mooney
- Narrated by: Jonathan Mooney
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn - individually, uniquely, and with advantages and upshots to every type of brain and body. He explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when they’re trapped in environments that label them, shame them, and tell them, even in subtle ways, that they are the problem.
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Beautiful
- By Tasha on 09-30-19
By: Jonathan Mooney
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Reversed
- A Memoir
- By: Lois E. Letchford
- Narrated by: Lois Letchford
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Lois Letchford’s dyslexia came to light at the age of 39 when she faced teaching her seven-year-old, nonreading son Nicholas. Examining her reading failure caused her to adapted and change lessons for her son. The results were dramatic. Lois qualified as a reading specialist to use her nontraditional background, multicontinental experience and passion to assist other failing students.
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Lost me over one line
- By Amazon Customer on 12-19-22
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The Quiet Room: A Journey out of the Torment of Madness
- By: Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Gregory Abbey, Cheryl Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage. At 17, Lori Schiller was the perfect child - the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia.
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Mental Health Care in America
- By Dee Garza on 02-29-20
By: Lori Schiller, and others
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No One Cares About Crazy People
- The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
- By: Ron Powers
- Narrated by: Ron Powers
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times-best-selling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted.
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Could Have Been Better
- By Laurie on 06-18-18
By: Ron Powers
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Thinking in Numbers
- On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
- By: Daniel Tammet
- Narrated by: Daniel Tammet
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Thinking in Numbers is the book that Daniel Tammet, best-selling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes, everyday examples, and ruminations on history, literature, and more, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions, and equations underpin all our lives.
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An Ode to Imagination
- By Gary on 08-14-13
By: Daniel Tammet
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Everything Is Fine
- A Memoir