TRANSCRIPT
I used to think I had tuberculosis of the brain. My gut reaction is crazy, crazy, crazy, probably crazy.
Jo Ann Greenberg was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1948 at the age of 16. It’s kind of crazy, crazy, crazy. People locked up in their small rooms, it’s something bad. I knew that if this were today, Joann would likely be put on anti-psychotic medication immediately, and recovery, much less full recovery, would never be mentioned as a possibility.
You need medication. You have to take your pills. Chemical imbalance. Instead, Joann began intensive therapy with one of the preeminent clinicians of the day, Dr. Freda Frome Reichman.
You have to see a psychiatrist, you know, get some drugs. My mental disease, well, that, you know, a psycho, absolutely insane.
Now, over 60 years later, Joann Greenberg, a college professor and the world-respected author of the best-selling novel “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,” tells us the story of her full recovery from schizophrenia without medication.
I’ve never said any of this before. It’s very, very difficult.
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