How do you cope when a family member has a mental illness? For people who have a loved one that suffers from this disability, in whatever form it takes, they know the heartache caused by having their love tested year after year. So I felt a real connection reading this novel about a mother struggling with mental illness and her family’s struggle to help her. We tried to accustom ourselves to what we knew was not normal, but, being young, it’s not easy to empathize with hardships you don’t understand or appreciate what makes people unique. I saw the aggravation it caused her not being able to be the mother she wanted to be, but there was nothing she could do to prevent the terrors from plaguing her mind. The evident love the family held was twisted and broken by frustration. It was a hardship he mainly bore in silence, but sometimes the disturbance it caused to their family life spilled out into the open. When I was young the mother of one of my best friends suffered badly from mental illness.
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