Author: Michelle Cann
Publisher: Trafford Publishing

You may have been watching a loved one struggling with mental illness. If you have ever wondered what they were actually thinking, and how they were really feeling, this book might give you some insight. Published in October of 2005, the book details my experience with the sudden onset of mental illness and my subsequent diagnoses of first paranoid schizophrenia, and later bipolar disorder. It is a brutally honest account of my first two episodes, and it recites in detail my initial slow insidious decline into paranoia and my later unexpected manifestation of symptoms and creativity of thought that arose during the second episode. My intention is to seek to reduce some of the stigma that currently still surrounds mental illness which causes so many to keep their diagnoses a secret.

The title of the book is "Depressed Paranoid Schizophrenic Maniac - A Sane Person's Experience with Mental Illness" by Michelle Cann. It is available from Trafford Publishing for $15.50 each. You may call toll-free 1 888 232 4444 (Canada and USA only) or 250 383 6864 or order online at www.trafford.com or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

I would be extremely grateful if you would pass this information along to your members. Thank you very much.

Kind regards,

Michelle Cann Bermuda