Family Skeletons: A Web of Mental Illness

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 disorder which culminates in suicide she examines memories from her childhood in a dysfunctional family. She discovers a genetic closet with mental illness alcoholism and deviant behavior. Following a fourth marriage she finds peace but at the price of letting go of her mentally ill son.