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A practical, highly informative, and sympathetic guide." -The Washington Post Most of us will become a caregiver at some point in our lives. And we will assume this role for the most personal reason imaginable: wanting to help someone we love. But we may not know where to start, and we may be afraid of losing ourselves in this daunting task. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, a longtime advocate for caregivers and mental health, knows fir...

Using stories from her 35 years of advocacy to springboard into a discussion of the larger issues at hand, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter crafts an intimate and powerful account of a subject previously shrouded in stigma and shadow, offering insight and hope for the future.

The man revealed in these pages seems to embody so much of what Americans claim to admire--self-reliance, honesty, humor, modesty, intelligence--the stuff of heroes.

The first thing you need to know is that life isn't over. "The good news, " writes Mrs. Carter in Helping Someone with Mental Illness, "is that with proper diagnosis and treatment, the overwhelming majority of people with mental illness can now lead productive lives." Based on Mrs. Carter's twenty-five years of advocacy and the latest data from the Rosalynn Carter Symposia for Mental Illness, her book offers step-by-step information on what to...