In the Shadow of Schizophrenia

Psychology Today | 07.07.2026 22:36
About 25 years ago, out of the blue, a woman called me at work and asked if I was related to a woman with my mother’s name. The woman in question was, in fact, my mother. I had not talked to her in quite some time. She had been arrested for harassing a woman in the town she was living in. She was in the hospital, and they had been unable to find any family.