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Schizophrenia in Children: Families Grapple With Costs, Emotional and Financial

Thirty miles north of Los Angeles, in a community in the Santa Clarita Valley, Michael and Susan Schofield are doing their best to keep their family together while mental illness forces them to live apart. The Schofields live in two different apartments, one for each of their two young children. Since the age of 5, their older child, Jani has experienced violent and commanding hallucinations in the form of numbers and animals that tell her to hit, kick and bite her parents and her younger...Full Story
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