Family Skeletons: A Web of Mental Illness

By Elayne Gilliam

Following the loss of her husband to ALS, a mother struggles to raise four children alone, and discovers her eldest son and daughter suffer from mental illnesses. She describes her interactions with various public agencies; social, medical and judicial. As she cares for an alcoholic, paranoid schizophrenic son, and a daughter with personality di

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author Reputation Press, LLC
• Release date: Jun 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781649613752

Elayne Gilliam

At forty, I was a widow raising four children, a first time college student in my third marriage, and facing diagnosis of mental illness for a son and a daughter who eventually commits suicide. I confront my childhood memories from a dysfunctional family, and discover family secrets and a genetic disposition to alcoholism and mental illness. Following the death of another spouse, I remarry but have to let go of my mentally ill son. My story is for all who face the unexpected, unplanned, and challenges in life. Th is is my family story, skeletons from my closet.