Personal accounts: a peer saplings story: lifting the veil on parents with mental illness and their daughters and sons.

摘要

My mother received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in 1974. Through no fault of her own-nor that of my father or grandparents-my mother began hearing voices in 1977. As she told me later, "I was hearing 20 to 40 voices at a time." Despite that, my mother was awarded custody of my brother (18 months old) and me (seven years old) after she divorced our father.