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This is an astonishing memoir of a young woman called only Renee, whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five.!

This is the astonishing memoir of a young woman called only “Renee,” whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five.

  • This is the astonishing memoir of a young woman called only “Renee,” whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five.
  • In itself, though, it is a bit therapeutic not just for those with schizophrenia, but any other debilitating mental illness as well.
  • This is an astonishing memoir of a young woman called only Renee, whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five.
  • This book contains the autobiography of a woman with schizophrenia; it is Renee's intimate story as she recounted it shortly after her recovery.
  • About Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl.

    • Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl

    August 17, 2009
    This is the story of Renée, a young Swiss woman suffering from schizophrenia. At age five she first began to experience what she called Unreality.

    Initially Unreality happened only occasionally, as when her playmates suddenly seemed to swell or shrink until she didn’t recognize them, or when the nearby school took on the aspect of a prison, or when the local valley seemed to stretch like an endless desert suffused with a brilliant, oppressive light.

    In time, however, Unreality appeared more often and more intensely, causing in Renée an unbearable “electric” tension and the “Fear” of impending doom.

    Abstract.

    Here is how she later described Unreality:

    It was in the course of the first year of analysis that I finally realized the danger I was in. For me, madness was definitely not a condition of illness; I did not believe that I was ill.

    It was rather a country, opposed to Reality, where reigned an implacable light, blinding, leaving no p