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From her early 30's until her early 60's, Barbara Hawkins resided cloistered in her family home in suburban Chicago, a prisoner of undiagnosed mental disorder. Experiencing voices and paralyzed with fear, she was never assessed, never cared for, and refused to leave the house. After Schizophrenia is the story of Barb's descent into severe mental disorder and the curing that has come only in recent years: after her parents' death, when her sister, Margaret, became her guardian. With uncanny grace and humor, Margaret chronicles her family's struggle with Barb's mental disorder, the love that taken them through, and the digital army of medical care angels willing to come to Barb's aid. This is an extraordinary report of severe mental disorder and the curing that is possible with prompt analysis, good drugs, good care, and a brutal belief in the power to get well.
