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Education helps families face severe mental-health problems together

September 15th, 2014 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized

North Shore Schizophrenia Society’s Cheryl Zipper and Nancy Ford both benefited from hearing about others who had gone through similar experiences

COL_Health2_2438Cheryl Zipper says her son was always extremely shy, but it wasn’t until he was about 13 that she and her husband started to worry that something was wrong. He’d study for hours and hours but continued to get poor grades. When he was 19, a doctor told them their son had Asperger syndrome. It wasn’t until seven years later that they learned he had schizophrenia.

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