Book 39: Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

I heard an interview with Pete Earley on NPR when this book was first published in 2006 and it has been on my mind since then. It was definitely worth reading, all these years later.



If you have any interest in mental illness, the chronically homeless, or caring for a loved one who shows self-destructive behaviors, this is an enlightening book. I have a new compassion for those with serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia; what might you and I do, after all, if we couldn't tell what was real and what was a hallucination?

Any of us, or any of our loved ones, could be the chronically homeless person panhandling in the grocery store parking lot or sleeping in a doorway.