Dimensions
159 x 235 x 25mm
A Father's Search for Answers to His Son's Mental Illness and Suicide.
This book relates a father's search for answers to his son's suicide and explores the myths and realities of mental illness.
On November 1, 1996, Charley Arthur leapt to his death from a freeway overpass in California. He was 23 years old. It was the culmination of five years of heartache for Charley and his family, as he struggled with severe mental illness. In the process, the author addresses his own search to understand mental illness and the inability of many medical treatments to help troubled people like Charley.