Billy -One Family's Insane Journey through the Virginia Mental Health System
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (581 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002WYJGQ6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 373 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It is both Woody and Billy s hope that, through reading this book, other families may be able to avoid much of the pain and craziness that kept Billy from getting better sooner. Woody enjoys playing his guitar, baseball and his favorite pastime sailing.. He and wife Janice now live with son Billy in Merritt Island, VA. Today Billy is managing his mental illness and his addictions and is ready to move on with his life, but not before relentlessly battling a crazy mental health and criminal justice system in Virginia whose plethora of contradicting rules and criteria many times came close to leaving him for dead. DescriptionDiagnosed with severe ADHD and bipolar disorder, Billy Hawthorne faced a steep uphill battle to control his mental illness and beat his debilitating addictions to alcohol and DXM products, the active ingredient in cough syrups such as Robotussin and Corocidin. Relive Billy’s 5 year battle through repeated struggles and his ultimate triumph firsthand through the eyes of his father, Woody. About the AuthorWoody Hawthorne was born in August 1957 in Schenectady, NY USA. He graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA in 1979 and has worked primarily as an Electromagnetic Compatibility engineer in the aerospace industry for the past 29 years
Highly Recommend This family shares their knowledge and experience gained through struggles with a child suffering form biplar disorder, and the liminal space in the justice system which fails to address individuals battling a mental illness. - N. Jones. Real People, Real life Brenda Redmond This book about Billy is so encouraging for those sufferingwith disorders, specifically bipolor, and how alcoholismand other medicines alone can destroy someones life. Most importantly how our nation doesn't care about us the people, we are just another statistic.This book is written in lamen terms, read it yourself or share it with someone who is battleing this disease, they will feel like they aren't alone and their is hope.Highly recommend this read. Great Job Guys.Brenda Redmond. Best Book I read this as soon as I got it made my heart race,I cried it was a excellent book now my mother is reading it. I can say this is the best book to order I would know I even dated Billy a crazy path it was but I will always miss him.