I Am Not SIck - NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness
I Am Not Sick
I Don't Need Help!
How to Help Someone with Mental Illness
Accept Treatment
10th Anniversary Edition
Xavier Amador, Ph.D.
Vida Press, New York 2012
I AM NOT SICK, I DON'T NEED HELP! Xavier Amador
Copyright ? 2010-2012 by Vida Press, L.L.C.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-9677189-3-4
"LEAP?"; "L.E.A.P.?";"Listen-Empathize-Agree-Partner?"; "Listen, Empathize, Agree, Partner?" and all similarly punctuated versions are registered trademarks of the LEAP Institute, are protected under the laws of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and may not be used without express license of the LEAP Institute.
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Other books by Dr. Xavier Amador:
I'm Right, You're Wrong, Now What? Break the Impasse and Get What You Need
(Hyperion, 2008)
Break the Bipolar Cycle (McGraw Hill, 2007)
I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! 2nd Edition (Vida Press, 2007)
Insight and Psychosis, 2nd Edition Awareness of Illness in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
(Oxford University Press, 2004)
I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! (Vida Press, 2000)
Being Single in a Couples' World (Fireside Trade Edition, 1999)
Being Single in a Couples' World (Free Press, 1998)
When Someone You Love is Depressed: How to Help Without Losing Yourself
(Fireside, trade edition, 1997)
When Someone You Love is Depressed: How to Help Without Losing Yourself
(Free Press, 1996)
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to the National Alliance on Mental Illness
To contact Dr. Amador and for information on his books, LEAP trainings, and speaking schedule see
Contents
Foreword by: Pete Earley
ix
Preface to the 10th Anniversary Edition
xiii
Introduction
1
Part I. The Truth about Denial of Illness
7
1. A Common Problem
9
2. Staying in the Game
21
3. The Root of the Problem:
New Research on Anosognosia
32
Part II. How to Help Using LEAP
53
4. The Right and Wrong Approach
54
5. Learning to LEAP
64
6. Listen
70
7. Empathize
113
8. Agree
123
9. Partner
134
Part III. Staying on Guard and Next Steps
145
10. Don't Let Your Guard Down:
The problem of poor adherence
146
11. First Line Treatments
148
12. Involuntary Treatment
157
13. How to Do It
170
14. How to Survive an Involuntary Treatment
185
15. The Surprise
195
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Part IV. Theory, Research & Practical Advice on LEAP 201
16. LEAP Theory and Research
202
17. Psychotherapy for Psychosis?
209
18. Violence and Mental Illness
215
19. DSM-V and Anosognosia
219
20. Henry
224
Acknowledgments
229
Literature Cited
231
Recommended Reading
236
Recommended Resources
239
Praise for the First Edition
243
LEAP Quick Start Guide
250
About the Author
253
Foreword
by Pete Earley (2nd Edition)
How would you feel, Dad, if someone you loved killed himself?
I was rushing my college age son, Mike, to an emergency room when he asked me that question. He was seeing secret messages in bumper stickers and experiencing rapid mood swings. When we reached the hospital, I felt a tremendous sense of relief. The doctors there would know what to do!
Four hours later, a doctor finally appeared and after briefly questioning Mike, declared there was nothing he could do to help him. Mike was convinced that he wasn't sick and he refused to take antipsychotic medication.
Because the doctor did not believe Mike was an "imminent danger," either to himself or others, my son was turned away even though he was clearly delusional.
During the next forty-eight hours, Mike decompensated. Only another parent can really understand how agonizing it is to stand by and watch your child slip further and further into a mental abyss. I tried, of course, to intervene. I told Mike that his anti-psychotic medicine would help him think more clearly. But he told me there wasn't anything wrong with the way he was thinking. I tried to show him that he was having delusions, but he disagreed. Finally, I begged him to take his pills. "Please, please, just do it for me!" But he wouldn't. "I'm not sick," he kept repeating. After hours and hours of exhausting conversations, I demanded that he take his medication or leave the house. That threat only made the situation worse. Afraid of what might happen to him on the street, I backed down. The next morning, when Mike caught me spiking his breakfast cereal with his medicine, he became enraged.
Forty-eight hours later, Mike was in police custody. He had slipped outside one morning and broken into a house to take a bubble bath because he felt dirty. Luckily, the homeowners were out of town. It took six officers to subdue him. Mike was charged with two felony crimes.
Uncertain what to do, I contacted the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization, and a volunteer there urged me to read Dr. Xavier Amador's book, I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help!
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