By Allen Nelson Allen Nelson resides in Santa Monica, CA. He has three sons with his wife Rose. Brandon resides in heaven, Trent in Boston and Justin in Santa Monica. […]
24 November 2025By Anonymous in Texas My son is a gentle and kind soul. When he is stable on his medication, he is my friend, and he always looks out for his […]
27 June 2025By D. Woodin After sixteen hard years, my beautiful son has mostly recovered from schizophrenia. He still hears voices, but he knows they aren’t real. He takes his medications every […]
06 December 2024by J.W. Asbridge J.W. Asbridge is the creator of Moms Who Care, an organization devoted to encouraging our overburdened, burned out mental healthcare staff. Loss My son was a deep […]
14 August 2024by Marla Knauss In May 2023, I rescinded the restraining order against my son, who has schizophrenia. I didn’t want him to be discharged into homelessness, and the psychiatric hospital […]
26 January 2024By Rebecca Lyn Phillips I grew up in a happy, middle class home. My father was a communications professor and part-time pastor. My mother was a stay-at-home mom with a home […]
21 January 2021By Lisa Dailey My grandmother Daphne Thompson died on New Year’s Day of 2001, less than a year after my younger sister was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at the age […]
21 October 2020Leslie Carpenter, Iowa Family Advocate Reading Delayed and Deteriorating: Serious Mental Illness and Psychiatric Boarding in Emergency Departments, I am reminded of the immense stress our family experienced every time […]
17 November 2019
