People like Lori Schiller

Lori Schiller (born April 26, 1959), now Lori Jo Baach, is the author of the memoir The Quiet Room-- A Journey out of the Torment of Madness. When she was 17, she began to hear voices, and was later diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder. The Quiet Room--A Journey out of the Torment and Madness follows her story as well as her family and friends as they navigate her mental disorder.

Schiller was born in Michigan on April 26, 1959. She was raised by her parents, Marvin and Nancy, and had two younger brothers, Mark and Steven. She moved to Chicago and Los Angeles before moving to Scarsdale, New York where she was raised until college. She graduated from Scarsdale High School with an average GPA of 3.9 while heading the prom committee and serving as literary editor of the school magazine. From there, she went on to study at Tufts University in Massachusetts. During the summer of 1976, she was working as a counselor at Lincoln Farm summer camp, and began to hear voices telling her to die, a symptom of schizophrenia.