6/21/2023 0 Comments Made You Up by Francesca Zappia![]() He straddled the line between my world and everyone else’s, and I didn’t like it.” ![]() “He’d come right out of my delusions, but here he was. Alex’s mother would surely have noticed this before the lobster incident, although her parenting skills were questionable. Child-onset schizophrenia causes developmental delays before psychotic symptons. I really wanted to like Made You Up, so I kept reading. The Freeing of the Lobsters is a prologue and being the first thing I read, it jarred. Schizophrenia can cause untold problems, but it does not define a person and they can live as happily as anyone else.Īlex experienced her first hallucination when she was seven which is uncommon. (One friend killed himself due to long term refusal of treatment.) As with any mental illness, no two people have the exact same experience. ![]() I have family and friends with schizophrenia. Zappia does a disservice to real people and their real problems and fears caused by their schizophrenia. I found misunderstanding of schizophrenia and psychiatric care and use of the sensational aspects we see so often in books and media. It’s garnered lots of love since its publication last year including shortlisting for the Inky Award 2016. There’s so little YA featuring schizophrenia I was excited to read Made You Up by Francesca Zappia (Greenwillow Books, 2015). “If nothing’s real, then what does it matter? You live here. ![]() ![]() Spoilers ahead My review mentions some of the problematic aspects without spoilers. ![]()
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