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Schizophrenia: causes, cures, common myths + the true story of one family’s experience with 6 kids diagnosed with schizophrenia (with author Robert Kolker)

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Is It a Mental Illness?

The book follows a family of 12 as their oldest son becomes mentally ill. The parents have to decide if they should treat it as a medical problem or try to ignore it. They also don't tell their son's wife that there's another son who's mentally ill either. And then the dominoes begin to fall even more - one son kills his good old friend and then kills himself. Another son, michael, sir brian, is mentally ill and living out in sacramento. One sister gets eir lifted out by a wealthy friend of the family and gets to live with them for a couple of years. The other one goes to boarding school just to get away from her brothers

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