The Quiet Room (1994) (edit title/settings)

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• Lori Schiller: Main Character, Author
• Dr. Fischer: Add a description of this character.
• Marvin
• Dr. Doller
• Mark
• Raymond
• Steven
• Lori Winters
• Robin
• Sally
• Nancy
• Deanna
• Dr. Do Iler
• Tara
• Gail
• Charles Manson
• Payne Whitney
• Dr. Kline
• Mohammed

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• “I tried to understand about the Voices. For years in therapy, Dr. Rockland had told me that the Voices were a part of me, stuff buried deep inside coming out in another, strange way. I had learned to say that when I was asked, but I never really believed it. This time around, I tried hard to understand what my doctors meant when they said the Voices weren't real.When I heard Voices shouting at me to castrate a male staff member, Dr. Fischer and Dr. Doller explained, there weren't really voices that other people could hear. It was just my own hostile thoughts getting blown up out of proportion inside my brain.I listened. I thought about it. No way, I thought at first. I don't have horrible thoughts like that. Those thoughts aren't me. It's those Voices who are the crazy demons, not me. Besides, the Voices were so clear, so real, and so vivid. It seemed impossible to me that they were simply figments of my own imaginations.”

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• People with schizophrenia are locked out of the outside world, and locked inside their heads with nothing but these wild, out-of-control thoughts banging about inside. For what has also broken is the brain's ability to process emotion and thoughts. In people with schizophrenia the normal emotions—that we all every day categorize, process and either accept into our consciousness or push back into the recesses of our minds—run amok. Emotions that would normally be comfortably catalogued as unacceptable take on a life of their own as voices that seem more real than the real world outside.

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• Schizophrenia wasn't a split personality. It was a brain disease, a chemical imbalance.

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• What is there in any human being's experience to prepare him or her to cope with a broken brain? Who can understand what a catastrophe this break is for the human soul? For the thing that has broken is the person's ability to relate to another person. The thing that breaks is whatever it is that connects people to their environment, that allows them to recognize another person as someone outside of themselves.

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• The problem was, as I let the Voices gain power over me, I lost all power of my own. I started out not wanting to control myself, and ended up not being able to. Impulse became action.

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• “Because of the combination of her severe mood swings and her hallucinations we think that Lori has something we call schizo-affective disorder.” “Schizo-affective disorder?” Marvin sounded incredulous. “What's that?” “It's a combination of things. She's got some symptoms of manic-depression, and some symptoms of schizophrenia.”

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• At first I thought I was being tricked. Everyone was simply pretending not to hear the Voices. I didn't know why they were pretending like that but it made me paranoid and suspicious of them. What other things were they plotting against me?

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• I saw the job of the long-term unit as teaching her to recognize her symptoms as phenomena, and to seek help immediately from those around her before they became too much for her to bear.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• New York Hospital
• Dr. Rockland
• White Plains
• Scarsdale
• Chicago
• Westchester
• Futura House
• Manhattan
• Quiet Room
• Morocco
• Boston
• New York City
• Europe

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lori Schiller (Author)
2. Amanda Bennett

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• Dewey: 616.89820092

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• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Clinical Psychology
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Pathologies
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Mental Health › Schizophrenia
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Mental Illness
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs