Dealing with Schizophrenia: A Loving Sister’s Agony

Bob: As Life Goes On: Lessons One Doesn’t Want to Have to Learn is a memoir that narrates the author’s agony of seeing her brother Bob suffer from a mild case of schizophrenia. Contino did not pursue many of her plans to take care of her beloved brother, as she promised her deceased parents.

Rosalie starts the first few pages of her book sharing the pain she felt when her brother, because of his illness, was not invited to attend the wedding of a close friend’s daughter. She also expresses her hurt when Bob’s company, where he worked for forty years, advised her brother to retire to avoid any accident caused by his disability.

But more than anything else, this book reveals not only the author’s frustrations, but also the learnings she gained in caring for her dear brother, Bob. Contino’s book will teach lessons of life and love first-hand from a caregiver’s perspective.
 
 
 

Bob: As Life Goes On: Lessons One Doesn’t Want to Have to Learn
Written by Dr. Rosalie H. Contino
Kindle | $9.00
Paperback | $14.00
Book copies are available at www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, and all other online book retailers.
 
 

About the Author

An Italian American, Dr. Rosalie H. Contino received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Fordham University, and masteral and doctoral degrees in educational theater from New York University. Contino has worked as an elementary and junior high school teacher, and as a teaching fellow at New York University. She has also written poems on nature and articles on dramatics and creative writing. She presently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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