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The terms "mental illness” and “mental health” are often used casually, but many don’t believe mental illness is relevant to their lives. However, studies show that more people live with mental illness than heart disease, lung disease, and cancer combined.
Broken Brain, Fortified Faith is the story of one family’s journey through schizophrenia, navigating the uncharted waters of mental illness to find help for their daughter, Amber, and support for their family. This memoir is an honest look at the stress, anger, education, and finally, hope experienced through eyes of a mother. Along the way, she questions her trust in God as their family encounters setbacks, inadequate treatments, and additional family health crises, but with the help of trusted family, friends, education, and support groups, author Virginia Pillars learns to rely on her faith as she faces the challenges that often accompany mental illness.
Virginia Pillars has owned and operated a business since 1994. She volunteers for the National Alliance on Mental Illness organization as an instructor for the Family to Family educational program and leads support groups. Certified in First Aid for Mental Health, she speaks on mental illness, operating a small business, and quilting for organizations, workshops, and faith retreats. She's had two pieces published in devotionals, four essays in various anthologies, including two in Chicken Soup for the Soul, and other works of nonfiction. Virginia, a mother of four adult children, lives on an Iowa farm with her husband.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Something’s Wrong
Chapter 2: No Help at All
Chapter 3: It’s All About Amber
Chapter 4: Cameras
Chapter 5: Home for Christmas
Chapter 6: Merry Christmas?
Chapter 7: Help
Chapter 8: Now Is the Time
Chapter 9: What Next?
Chapter 10: It’s Not working
Chapter 11: The Transfer
Chapter 12: Thanks for nothing
Chapter 13: Home Work
Chapter 14: Night Watchmom
Chapter 15: More Family Problems
Chapter 16: Four Years Later
Chapter 17: Ten Years Later
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