Who are the Mentally Ill?
I have a younger brother who has Schizophrenia. He’s a twin. Our other brother has debilitating emotional struggles also. When the two boys were little I fed them, babysat them, and played with them. I have fond memories playing nurf basketball with them in our basement when I was a teenager and they were little boys. I taught them to play baseball and football too. We had discussions about our Christian faith and many other things. It wasn’t until after I went off to college that my brother’s mental illness emerged. Up to that point we just thought he struggled with learning disabilities, perhaps because of the complications of being born premature to a mother with toxemia and starting off life in an incubator for a number of weeks. But in high school he started hearing voices and having paranoid thoughts that wouldn’t go away. After years of hospitalizations, psychiatric visits, anti-psychotic medications, psychotherapy, special nutritional supplements, and support from my parents he
