Saving MillieSaving Millie; A Daughter’s Story of Surviving Her Mother’s Schizophrenia is a call to action. Often times, the needs of the children who have parents with mental illness is often overlooked and misunderstood. All too often, children are overshadowed by the needs of their mentally ill parent and the roles of the child and parent are reversed. This role reversal can have a lasting impact on the child, well into adulthood.
Saving Millie gives hope and understanding to others who have grown up in the shadow of mental illness. It has become a teaching tool for the mental health profession to better understand the family dynamics often associated when an individual has a mental illness
Saving Millie addresses the many ways in which a family gets lost among the circumstances and cyclical crisis that occurs when an individual in their family has a mental illness.
All to often the common experiences of the daughters, sons and families of the mentally ill are simply not addressed. How can you put into words a situation that makes no sense?
Saving Millie eloquently addresses the common experiences of millions of children who have or have had a parent with a mental illness. The author’s interview in Out of the Shadow has been translated into five different languages and Saving Millie has won numerous awards for addressing the silenced majority.
Saving Millie has been dedicated to all those who have grown up in the shadow of mental illness.
To read an excerpt of Saving Millie, click here.
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