* Finalist for the Pencil/E. O. Wilson Literary Technology Composing Award * Washington Post Notable Book of the entire year * People Magazine Best Reserve of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Reserve of the Year *

‘Amazing and courageous . Without doubt if everyone had been to learn this publication, the world would change.’

New York Times Book Review

New York Times-bestselling author Ron Power presents a searching, richly researched narrative from the public background of mental illness in America paired using the deeply about NO-ONE Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Wellness in America personal story of his two sons’ battles with schizophrenia.Through the centuries of torture of ‘lunatiks’ at Bedlam Asylum towards the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry motion to the current landscape where too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Forces limns our doubts and common myths about mental illness as well as the fractured public guidelines which have resulted. Braided with this history is the moving story of Powers’s beloved kid Kevin–spirited, endearing, and gifted–who triumphed even while suffering from schizophrenia until finally he did not, and the story of his courageous surviving son Dean, who is also schizophrenic. A mixture of history, biography, memoir, and current affairs closing with a thought of where we may go from here, this is a thought-provoking take a look at a feared illness that has long been misunderstood.