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Such an important account. I must get a copy. Thank you

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Thank you for sharing these excerpts and to the author for their determination in telling and revealing a painful truth.

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This review persuades me to read the memoir. The author’s reaction to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is like my own, only far more eloquent, after more than 25 years caring for a transgender daughter with schizophrenia and a wife with major depression partly brought on by our parenting experience. However, my reaction to watching the movie in a theatre so many years ago was that it was great fun, the reaction that most people who have no firsthand experience with serious psychiatric illness seem to have. My wife and I are looking into relocating from Texas to the northeast US, hoping to find a home on an acre or two of land we can subdivide into two lots, and put up a small home for our daughter to live in after we are gone. We hope her biological relatives—we adopted her as a newborn—might include persons she can contact for advice, though mostly undiagnosed psychiatric illness is evident among them. Or, if things get bad enough for trans persons in the U.S., perhaps we will flee the country. There are no easy answers.

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excellent piece - so important

(I've met schizophrenic people many times in my own treatment journey and can confirm the frustration, the body broken down, the need to assert self in the midst of the best offered at the time.)

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