Pat Engebrecht penned this book about her daughter who committed suicide 25 years ago. Her daughter LauraJo, aged 29, was a closet homosexual and had severe long term mental illness diagnosed as Borderline Personality Disorder. Mom Pat took a collection of LauraJo’s journal entries and then comments back to her daughter and the reader. From Pat’s vantage parents are erroneously blamed for their children’s troubles and this is wrong. Pat wants other parents, grappling with guilt over their mentally ill children, to realize, as she does, that they are not the problem.
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Children do not come with “How To” instructions. Each day we face the challenge and some days we do OK and others are a disaster…we just do the best we can and most children grow up “normal” in spite of us. And then we ask…”What is NORMAL?” How much is genetic and how much is environment? An age old question. PE