THE MAKING OF A MIND

摘要

It hits in early adulthood. At first, the mistrustfulness and increasingly mercurial outbursts are dismissed by loved ones as a mere passing youthful "phase". But all too soon comes full-blown psychosis, that mental schism with reality that is schizophrenia. Parents watch in horror as their son or daughter lurches into paranoid delusions, verbal incoherence and hallucinations. It all seems unfairly sudden. An ambush. In fact, it is a nightmare that has been years in the making.