Living with Mental Illness: From a Family members Perspective

Join us as we welcome Jacqueline Warren to our show. 

Jackie (as she is know to her family and friends) is an  African American female.  She is married has two adult children and three grand children. She has a career in the  health care industry and enjoys what she does for a living.

What makes Jackie unique is that she has lived with mental illness all of her life.  You see, her father has a diagnosis of mental illness and has lived with bi-polar, manic depression, and schizophrenia with homicidal tendencies every since Jackie can remember.

Jackie will invite us on her journey through living with a parent who has mental illness. 

She will discuss the fear, anger, disappointment, confusion and often shame that clouds the lives of of those who suffer with mental illness as well as the those who are in their world.

Jackie will shares the  disappointments, challenges, and achievements of relating with her father as a child through adulthood.

We will learn how she has had to find resources and safe accommodations for him as he progresses through the aging stages of his life.

She will also share self-help tips that have helped her maintain her stability, and sanity.