When Adult Child Breaks Your Heart

The book that I selected to write about for this discussion is called When your Adult Child Breaks Your Heart. The purpose of this book was to help parents cope that have children that suffers from a mental illnesss, substance abuse and problems that tears the family apart, but the purpose of this overall assignment is to explore prednovied notions about a particular illness. There are many mental illness that is listed within the book, but the one that I decided to talk about was schizophrenia. Schizophrienia is mental disorders can appear in late adolescent and early adulthood, “ characterized by delusion, hallucation” ( Nordogvist 2017). Individuals that suffer schizophrenia are often said to have no emotions. The target audience for tthis

I beleived that parents was the cause of their adult child having schizophrenia because of the way that the televison protrayed schizophrenia. In the media director made it seem as if parents were the contribute to their child having an this disorder. Another preconcieveed notion that I had beforehand was that people that suffered from schizophrenia was extermly dangerous. I really thought they were because they heard voices inside their heads and I thought that the voices would tell them to hurt and harm people. I know that when I see homeless people on the streets talking to themselves, in my mind I am thinking get as far away from them as I can because I fear that they would harm me and that was wrong. This book has many theme to it, but the one specisfially I seen was that the book showed the readers insight when it comes to parents learning to cope with a child with a mental

One interetting thing that I learned from this book is that alot of parents that child have an illness consume a lot of guilt because they think that they are the reason for their children suffering from a disorder, but in reality they aren’t. According to Young and Adamec,“ many people think that childrenof any ages have a serious problem, then it is your fault because you were undobutfly a bad parent. Oftern they are wrong” ( 21). A large number of parents blame themselves and think that they are the reasons that their children suffer from schizphrenia. According to Christian Nordqvist, “ gentetics and envireomental factors act together to bring about schizophrenia” ( 2017). This proves that a parents can only contribute to their child having the disorder is if the parent sufferes from the disorder theirselves. In fact, schizophrenia is caused mostly by an imbalance of the