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Help From Above, Push From Below, Fight for the Middle - Recovery
After a blow to the brain, Brad teeters between help from an angel, pushes forward from a variety of people, and gets a shot at a chance for a middle-class living through an organization that provides employment and housing after a devastating experience of homelessness.
His recovery is non-linear and many times in jeopardy.However, Brad is convinced he can live a normal life if the playing field is level and people just believe in him. That's the tricky part. Brad's predicament is such that he sees an angel but he requires medical intervention. While he sees the angel as a strong guiding light, the medical team is skeptical. He finds success by joining a mainstream church of believers and by working for a company that suspends judgment if he continues to produce at work.
His recovery is non-linear and many times in jeopardy.However, Brad is convinced he can live a normal life if the playing field is level and people just believe in him. That's the tricky part. Brad's predicament is such that he sees an angel but he requires medical intervention. While he sees the angel as a strong guiding light, the medical team is skeptical. He finds success by joining a mainstream church of believers and by working for a company that suspends judgment if he continues to produce at work.
155 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 5, 2012
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June 20, 2021
"Help from Above, Push from Below, Fight for the Middle" is about the nuts and bolts of mental illness. The book traces the story of Brad Schmidt. It begins with with Brad sustaining a brain injury and ends with Brad at peace. In the pages between, we learn how Brad achieves his recovery and exactly what he is recovering from i.e. a Traumatic Brain Injury.
Much of Brad's success is that he is at the same time growing from a religious experience, that of divine guidance from an angel. The trouble there is although Brad clearly sees the angel, no one else can. Most of the people Brad tries to convince are skeptical about it. Most of his doctors like to say it's evidence of his schizophrenia that they diagnose him with.
Brad isn't having it. He finds an organization, Thumb's Up, that offer him employment and housing as long as he takes medication but suspends judgment about his angel. This is his success, his justice.
Much of Brad's success is that he is at the same time growing from a religious experience, that of divine guidance from an angel. The trouble there is although Brad clearly sees the angel, no one else can. Most of the people Brad tries to convince are skeptical about it. Most of his doctors like to say it's evidence of his schizophrenia that they diagnose him with.
Brad isn't having it. He finds an organization, Thumb's Up, that offer him employment and housing as long as he takes medication but suspends judgment about his angel. This is his success, his justice.
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