When Your Child Becomes Mentally Ill

There's More Than One Way to Lose a Child—And Get Her Back

By Michael Greenberg
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the September 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Michael Greenberg, author of Hurry Down Sunshine, discovers there's more than one way to lose a child and get her back.

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