My mother first started showing symptoms of schizophrenia when she packed up some of my things along with my brothers and we left boston i was 8 years old then my mother was experiencing paranoia and felt as though someone was trying to hurt us we traveled to new york to stay with a family member but that didnt last long. This is a fabulous book for any child who grew up with a schizophrenic mother oftentimes children are reluctant to speak of their experiences with siblings because they are traumatic this book changed my life i thought i had a really hard time growing up but others had it much worse when i read the book i felt like it mirrored my childhood in many ways back in the 1970s there was . Growing up with a schizophrenic mother margaret j brown doris parker roberts mcfarland nov 3 2015 psychology 207 pages 1 review an estimated two to three million people in the united states today were raised by a schizophrenic parent brown and roberts offer a unique book based on interviews with over forty adult children of mothers diagnosed as schizophrenic such topics as the