How I Learned To Be Thankful Even For Mental Illness By Laura Baxter for The Federalist Through a dark trial of my son’s mental illness, I realized suffering is an embedded feature of our fallen world. But through thanksgiving, earthly suffering is transformed, one broken heart at a time. It has been a very difficult five years. Just before starting college, my son Z. had his first psychotic break. Doctors eventually diagnosed him with schizoaffective disorder, a variant of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness, affecting approximately 1 percent of the…
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