Saving Millie's Family Analysis

Illnesses, whether physical or psychological, can impact the victim diagnosed with the illness in an extensive way. Mental illness does not only affect the victim, it also alters the people around them. Mental illnesses have a flutter effect on families, creating strain, instability, troubled feelings, and enormous changes within how individuals experience their lives. The family may tell themselves the victim will overcome the illness if given time and consolation. The family does not normally have control of what is happening. When mental instabilities dominate the victim, it leaves families confounded and distressed.

When mental illnesses first emerge, family members may encounter denial, unable to process the person has a continuing illness. During the intense experience, family members will be conscious of what is happening to their loved one. When the episode is over and the family member settles down, everyone will feel a colossal sense of relief until they encounter another episode. In Tina Kotulski’s biography, Saving Millie, Millie’s family, could not handle Millie when she was trapped in one of her episodes. Millie’s medication made her only tired and neglectful of her family. Millie’s family remembered their best memories with Millie when she was not screaming and

The companion of an ill individual might blame, disgrace, and attack themselves. The couple’s social life and physical intimacy may change. The partner may feel grief for the loss of the life they had once shared together. For example, Millie’s husband, Alan, stated he often felt alone while married to Millie. Millie would repetitively start fights with him and did not show him any attention or affection anymore like she used to. Her husband eventually divorced her and remarried to another woman soon after the divorce was final. Millie’s family believed Alan carried a burden of guilt over the