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“This book will bring both tears and joy. I highly recommend it as a behind the scenes view of life with someone struggling with mental and emotional illness.”
— Gary Chapman, Ph.D., author of The Five Love Languages
STARS AND SKELETONS
by David Robinson
A true story of amazing recovery — A memoir and a coming of age story that reads like a novel.
Follow the author, Dave, and his brother, Tim, from the joys of childhood to the troubling surprise of severe mental illness in adulthood.
Join them as they face the pain and darkness, seemingly without guidance or instruction. Tim loses himself in a world of psychotic delusions and confusing, terrifying thoughts. He becomes dangerous, especially to himself, and is eventually diagnosed with Chronic Undifferentiated Schizophrenia.
Through years of setbacks, faith, medication, and hard work, the brothers’ relationship deepens as they refuse to give up hope for recovery.
In the appendix of the book, Tim himself shares some of the powerful tools he's learned that help him now lead a healthy and productive life.
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“This book will bring both tears and joy to anyone acquainted with mental illness. I highly recommend it to anyone who is open to a behind the scenes view of life with someone struggling with mental and emotional illness.”
— Gary Chapman, Ph.D., author of The Five Love Languages
“This book will knit you to the characters in their childhood, so you’re comfortably strapped in with them for the wild and unpredictable ride, with its joys and its sorrows, its examination and understanding of the illness, and the wholly unanticipated outcome.”
— Mary Bihr, Vice President, Global Publishing, LucasArts, a division of Lucasfilm (retired)
This story allows us to see the individual behind the mask of a diagnosis, and has the potential to dismantle the stigma often attached to Schizophrenia.
— Marty Schwebel, LMFT in California and Texas
Dave is an insightful witness to his brother’s spiral into the depths of mental illness. A window into this world is a courageous gift to readers. Love will ultimately prevail in this complicated, sometimes humorous, and at other times heart wrenching, yet hopeful story.
— Andre Stephens, Ph.D., President, Fresno Pacific University
I first met Tim at a moment of desperation in the San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Room. Dave’s book documents the toll of schizophrenia on his brother, and Tim’s courage as he slowly arose from the depths of despair.
— William Schecter, MD, FACS, FCCM, Professor of Clinical Surgery, UCSF
David Robinson did an incredible job painting the picture of his brother Tim as a whole person. He also captured the confusion and terror of the psychotic symptoms Tim experienced. It’s a compelling story of the love of family, friends, and mentors.
— Peggy Kwun, MD, Psychiatry
the Author
David Robinson, MDiv, DMin
Dave is an artist, a teacher, a counselor and a writer.
He resides and works in the San Francisco Bay Area where he directs a nonprofit focused on serving people by fostering personal healing and spiritual development through creativity and the arts.
