Mental illness, seen through the eyes of a child
Broadcast: Midmorning, 04/10/2008, 10:06 a.m.
St. Paul, Minn. — Author Laura Flynn writes of her at times luminous, at times agonizing experiences growing up with a mother going gradually insane. Her new book is called "Swallow the Ocean."
Flynn's mother suffered from schizophrenia at a time when the disease was not as well known, and authorities were reluctant to split children from their mothers.
