A onetime golden boy lost to the grip of mental illness | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

A onetime golden boy lost to the grip of mental illness

Posted on April 2, 2017

"That's what the early stages of mental illness are like, It's as if you're trying to find your way home again." Her 2011 memoir, Circles Around the Sun: In Search of a Lost Brother, focused on his struggle with schizophrenia.

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