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What Kind of Mother: A Reckoning
A mother's memoir that reckons with her son's descent into severe mental illness. What appears to be...
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A mother's memoir that reckons with her son's descent into severe mental illness. What appears to be substance use disorder in high school later becomes a dual diagnosis as bipolar disorder emerges. Her son soon grows disillusioned with prescribed pharmaceuticals and participates in a residential treatment program that assists people in forgoing medication altogether. However, the program ultimately ejects him from the community for the very behaviors that the medication once managed. The book chronicles Sandler's initial denial of her truth, her painful awakening to mental illness in her family, and her eventual acceptance that she cannot save her son--only he can save himself.
Author: Judy Sandler
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 09/08/2026
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781959000808
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 08/27/2026
About the Author
Judy Sandler is a writer and educator living in mid-coast Maine. She holds an MLA from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from Stonecoast, at the University of Southern Maine. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times's "Tiny Love Stories," The Atticus Review, The Perch, Pangyrus, and the Treatment Advocacy Center blog. Sandler previously taught in Baltimore area independent schools for over twenty-eight years. She is now the creative nonfiction editor for both The Stonecoast Review and The Awakenings Review. Sandler and her husband are the parents of three adult children, Alex, Lucy, and Noah.
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