Every Homeless Person Has a Mother challenges one of the most overlooked failures in mental health care: the systematic exclusion of families from treatment and recovery.
Across the country, families watch someone they love disappear into serious mental illness, often exacerbated by anosognosia, a brain disorder that prevents a person from recognizing they are ill. Families are frequently shut out as frameworks like HIPAA are misunderstood or misused. Mothers’ and caregivers’ voices are too often disregarded, while their loved ones end up homeless, incarcerated, hospitalized, or trapped in repeated cycles of crisis.
