After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity

Susan Inmans memoir describes her familys nine year journey to help her younger daughter recover from a catastrophic schizoaffective disorder. Highly recommended by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey author of Surviving Schizophrenia and described by him as ...one of the best accounts I have read of serious mental illness as told by a mother. From the introduction Michael Kirby Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada and Ella Amir the chair of the Caregivers Advisory Committee state Susans heart wrenching account is an important reminder of the work we still have to do to ensure that people with mental illness and their families get the same treatment and respect that individuals with physical illnesses receive. It is also testimony to the devotion and dedication of families which sadly often comes at the expense of their own well-being Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Stephanie Engel said Susan Inman has written a much needed book about her experience as a mother coming to grips with her daughters devastating mental illness. Other parents will recognize and take comfort from her courageous and persistent efforts to learn what is known about psychotic illnesses and their treatment while holding tenaciously to her own personal knowledge of what it means to be a loving humane and thoughtful parent. Believing in ones own instincts as a parent in the face of expertise myths and prejudices is a monumental task and Ms Inman does it with grace and conviction. Emergency room physician and international best selling author Dr. Daniel Kalla said After Her Brain Broke is a harrowing heart wrenching and ultimately triumphant story of one familys struggle with a childs mental illness. Its impossible not to be moved by Susan Inmans honest and touching account of her daughters sudden descent into mental health turmoil and the familys long hard battle to overcome it. A must read for families coping with a mental illness and a wonderful eye-opener for those of us lucky enough not to have been affected.