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When Jenny Lexhed and her partner have their first child Lucas, they are living the aspiration. They're happily wedded, they've just bought a residence, the business they built mutually from the ground up is starting to blossom. But with the introduction of their boy, a feeling of anxiety slips to their life. What starts as a feeling becomes a conviction. Lucas is nothing like other children. Everything appears to reveal, and psychiatric analysis concludes, that their boy is significantly autistic. Will he ever be able to communicate? Jenny vows to do whatever she can to help Lucas connect with his parents while others and live an unbiased life. Tossed between wish and despair, she begins a frantic effort to analyze the best among many contending therapies and find exactly the right treatment for her boy. Her obsession will take her to the brink of exhaustion - and over, when she suffers a psychotic breakdown and must be committed to a psychiatric medical center. There begins another journey, to find her balance and restore her strong, healthy life, before she can begin again to combat for her boy. Both brutally genuine and deeply influencing, Love Is Not Enough is a pause register memoir that offers insight into autism and just what a parent goes through for her child.
