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  • Because I Come from a Crazy Family

  • The Making of a Psychiatrist
  • By: Edward M. Hallowell
  • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
  • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)
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Because I Come from a Crazy Family

By: Edward M. Hallowell
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Summary

From the best-selling author of the classic book on ADD Driven to Distraction, a memoir of the strange upbringing that shaped Dr. Edward M. Hallowell's celebrated career.

When Edward M. Hallowell was 11, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would have called this psychosis. But young Edward (Ned) took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what "psychiatrist" meant. With a psychotic father, an alcoholic mother, an abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behaviour from those around him and to a mind he felt he couldn't always control.

The voice turned out to be right. Now, decades later, Hallowell is a leading expert on attention disorders and the author of 20 books, including Driven to Distraction, the work that introduced ADD to the world. In Because I Come from a Crazy Family, he tells the often strange story of a childhood marked by what he calls the "WASP triad" of alcoholism, mental illness, and politeness and explores the wild wish, surging beneath his incredible ambition, that he could have saved his own family of drunk, crazy, and well-intentioned eccentrics - and himself.

Because I Come from a Crazy Family is an affecting, at times harrowing, ultimately moving memoir about crazy families and where they can lead, about being called to the mental health profession and about the unending joys and challenges that come with helping people celebrate who they are.

©2018 Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. (P)2018 Audible, Ltd

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A blessing for anyone, like me, who needs it!

If you also come from a crazy family & know you’ve spent much of your life clinging on by your fingertips, it’s such a relief to read about other people who started out the same way - but particularly those who you already know are successful, in the generally accepted sense. It’s both fascinating to realise that your own crazy isn’t the only type & educational to discover how other people manage to survive their own trauma/s sufficiently to earn a spot in the top leagues of the neurotypical world. Despite the mental health challenges which we all start out thinking is just normal & at some point, occasionally in a blinding flash, get slapped round the face with the knowledge that we’re not & never will be!

This is a wonderful book & I loved it. I’m sure I’ll return to re-read it & there are very few books that make me feel that way. If you come from a crazy family or place in the world & are neurodiverse, I expect you’ll really enjoy it. If you’re neurotypical you probably won’t understand all of it so don’t worry about it.

And it won’t teach you anything about ADHD, so don’t listen to it thinking you will - for that you need ‘ADHD 2.0’ also by Ned Halliwell & I definitely recommend you listen with your ADHDer because you might enjoy their reactions & you almost certainly will need their explanations!

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Very interesting book

I love this book and I've listened to it 3 times now. it's great.
It's one of the best books I've read!

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