Veronica Relationship

For myself I relate the plot of this memoir to how my great aunt suffers from schizophrenia. My great aunt Rita was a normal, happy person up until she was 23 years old. She then began to exhibit early signs of schizophrenia such as seeing and hearing delusions, being paranoid and just generally the opposite of how she generally was. This affected my family greatly, particular my grandmother as she watched her best friend and only sibling turn to almost a complete stranger right before her eyes.

I only knew my great aunt as the way she is now, she is doing well with medication and therapy but it would have been nice to meet her as she was before her illness affected her. Just like Alzheimer’s schizophrenia is a debilitating horrendous disease that take a normal, happy person and turns a person personality wise into almost a complete stranger. These diseases put a lot of strain on family’s and how they interact with the affected person.