to get help for her mentally unwell brother
Deborah has been through hell the last couple of years.
It wasn’t because she has custody of her 6-year-old granddaughter. Or because she was fighting lung cancer. And it had nothing to do with Covid-19.
Deborah was put through the wringer because her brother lives with schizophrenia. And constantly fighting the system to get him help and keep him safe pushed her to the edge of despair.
The Ministry of Health describes schizophrenia as a lifelong disorder characterised by a re-interpretation of, or a loss of, reality.
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