I just ordered your book. My brother is 11 years older than me and I watched my parents struggle with him and his diagnosis my whole life. My two other brothers and myself all processed his illness differently but it absolutely changed who we are forever. My parents still hate to talk about it and I’m always saying I feel like I know nothing about what really happened because I was so young and it is a deep and shameful, family secret. Even though I knew both my aunt and cousin had killed themselves we were never allowed to discuss the genetic possibilities outside of our small family unit. He was “treated” in the same hospital that they filmed “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” in and I will never forget family therapy meetings there on the men’s ‘criminally insane’ ward (I still have no idea to this day what he did to be put there). My parents would pick me up after school and take me and I was usually wearing my cheerleading uniform. In my adult years I married a man who owns behavioral health centers and spent about 3 years working adjacently to young men and women suffering from schizophrenia and it was a massive time of healing for me and it allowed me to access incredible depths of compassion and connection I wasn’t aware I had in me. I felt I was able to help these kids and parents in a way I wasn’t able to help my mom, dad and brother. When I meet people who grew up with siblings suffering from any type of schizoaffective disorder it is an instant bond, an immediate recognition of a kindred spirit. I very much look forward to reading your book-I can’t even imagine my life x 6.