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The Day the Voices Stopped
by Ken Steele and Clarie Berman

The Day the Voices Stopped is a personal account of Ken Steele's journey from madness to recovery and how finding treatment inspired him to become an advocate for people with mental illnesses-which ultimately helped him regain his sanity and his life. For thirty-two years, Ken lived with the devastating symptoms of schizophrenia.

Taunted by inner voices, devastated by delusions of paranoia, Ken fought to free himself from the torment that lived inside his own mind. These voices them took him on a life-long journey across the country to find the solace that only could be found in silence.

Ken Steele's recovery began with a small but intensely dramatic moment. One evening in the spring of 1995, shortly after starting Risperdal, a new antipsychotic medicine, he realized that the voices that had tormented him for three decades had suddenly stopped.

Terrified but also empowered by this new freedom, Steele rose to the challenge of creating a new life. He went on to become one of the most vocal advocates of the mentally ill, earning the respect not only of patients and families, but also of professionals and policymakers all over America.

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