Purpose of Book
More than anything, I want to work with people who are faced with the unpredictable and often frustrating behaviors of a loved one who suffers from a mental illness. I want to help them to:
- Accept that their loved one suffers from a mental illness.
- Understand that a mental illness, like other illnesses, is treatable.
- Believe that there is hope for recovery.
- Realize that they can make a difference in that recovery.
- Want to learn what it is they can do to help.
I have come to realize that there are millions of people just like me; people who are moving along the river of life believing that everything is under control. Then, without warning, they get a phone call telling them that a loved one is in the hospital, having attempted suicide, and their “white water rapids” pull them under and down so fast, they find it impossible to breathe.
