Dr. Morton Cooper - Stop Committing Voice Suicide book review

This is my 1st book of Dr. Morton Cooper's. Its subtitle is "Common Symptoms of Voice Suicide - Voice Misuse and Abuse." No bookstore in the Philippines sell this so I ended up buying it online. It has 11 chapters covering the ff. topics:

1 - The Shocking Truth about Voices
2 - Medicine in Wonderland
3 - De-Mystify and De-Medicalize
4 - All the Presidents' Voices
5 - Voice Suicide: Whatever Happened to Voices?
6 - Speaking of Kids
7 - Hope for Hopeless Voices
8 - Change your Voice, Save your Life
9 - The Madness of Medicine
10 - What You May Not Know about Voice and Speech
11 - How to Get a Voice that Really Talks for You

Dr. Cooper previously had I guess mild spasmodic dysphonia and he treated himself.

In this book, Dr. Cooper addresses the common things we do with our voices that he says damages the vocal cords. One of them is having the wrong pitch, especially having it too down in the throat. There might be some truth to it -- because about half a year before my voice went downhill, I had been subconsciously (alright, maybe not too subconsciously) imitating the voice of my colleague. She's one of my seniors. Very pretty, really smart... and she just had this authoritative, deep voice. So, perhaps ther might be some truth to Dr. Cooper's theory, at least in my case.

Another thing Dr. Cooper mentions in this book is that GERD or acid reflux has nothing to do with spasmodic dysphonia, and he gave examples of why he believes this to be so. He also gives steps on how to find out your correct pitch. He gives natural spasmodic dysphonia exercises and also spasmodic dysphonia breathing exercises. He also teaches about facial resonance, so that voice amplification is done, helping the little sound coming from the vocal cords.

Dr. Cooper doesn't agree to having botox for spasmodic dysphonia. I think it's very brave of him to be vocal about his stand.

Overall, this is a good book to read when you have spasmodic dysphonia or any kind of voice problem and you're looking for alternative SD treatments.