The Day the Voices Stopped The Day the Voices Stopped is the autobiography of Ken Steele, a man who suffered from schizophrenia for most part of his life, finding peace and comfort only after finding the right antipsychotic medication. Steele began hearing voices at the age of fourteen through the radio, before leaving his parents' home, without their support, at the young age of seventeen. Voices regularly told Steele to commit suicide, to harm himself, and to give up because he was worthless. The voices told him to “hang himself… set himself on fire” because “the world will be better. It's not good, it's not good at all (page 1)”. It's interesting to see his side of the story, to see him slowly slip into the world of psychosis. It's very different from seeing someone or hearing about someone who is already schizophrenic - it offers a different perspective allowing the reader to understand the pain and suffering you go through. At first, Steele notes that he could hear voices, but couldn't figure out what his reality was in regards to what the voices were telling him. Her parents were terrified, especially after she thought she might talk to others, as well as to the unborn baby brother her mother was carrying (page 7): “Grandma heard me respond aloud to the voice's requests and he thought I was on the phone to a friend (page 8). Steele went on to note, through heartbreaking and very interesting stories and perspectives, how the voices wouldn't leave him alone and how relentless they were: "The voices haunted me every step of the way, look at you Kenny. You're an absolute mess... when it was the last time you washed (page 92)?” Steele noticed that what the voices said usually came out... in the middle of the paper... hospitals and psychiatrists were like that, even if he only paints a negative picture of it, it would have been better to see a more neutral view of the account of the hospitals and psychiatrists of that time. Likewise, the thing I didn't like about Jamison's An Unquiet Mind was his reliance on others personally helpful, but she focused too much on herself (although this is understandable given that she was in pain and depressed she truly cared about others and had the empathy to understand the pain her illness was causing them too). Overall, both books were very entertaining and uplifting and show that even people in the toughest conditions and illnesses can overcome their illness and thrive if they take the right medications and fight until the end.