Losing Reality

About the book: Enjoy reading more than 40 poems about Richard Carlson's experience with mental illnesses: paranoid schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression-and how they have affected his life. Richard wants people to understand mental illness which is often misunderstood by the public. About the author: Richard has paranoid schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he is a highly sensitive person (HSP). He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at almost twenty-one years old and was mentally ill since about puberty. Years later, he finally spoke up to his psychiatrist and was diagnosed with depression. He lives in the southwestern United States. Learn more at www.richardcarlson.com. Losing Reality: Poetry About Paranoid Schizophrenia, OCD, and Depression for Teenagers