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Households are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a deep secret was maintained under lock and key for 18 years within his family - that his father's incomprehensible absences, for weeks at a time, resulted from serious mental disorder and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father disclosed the reality, during Hinshaw's first spring break from college, he understood his life would change permanently. Hinshaw calling this revelation his "emotional beginning". After many years of experiencing the ups and downs of his father's disorder without knowing it been around, Hinshaw started out to patch together the silent, often terrifying history of his father's life - in great comparison to his father's presence and love during intervals of wellness. This exploration resulted in much larger discoveries about the family saga, to Hinshaw's correctly diagnosing his father with bipolar disorder, and his full-fledged career as a scientific and developmental psychologist and teacher.
