Sooner Than Tomorrow

A Mother's Diary about Mental Illness, Family, and Everyday Life

Ranked #33 in Schizophrenia

Welcome to my world.

My story is written in diary format. I wrote it from June 16, 2013, to June 15, 2014. What I didn't know, as I was writing, was that I was capturing the last year of my son's life. Pat died, unexpectedly, on July 23, 2014, in a hospital psych ward. Suddenly, my diary morphed into a more poignant record than I'd anticipated, and after he died, I discovered Pat had been making regular posts on Facebook. I decided to add his comments to my own.

I like stories where I can extrapolate from the singular to the universal--that is where I can identify with a...
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