RESOURCES ON SIBLINGS AND MENTAL ILLNESS:
- WFCR provides the following resources without any endorsement of the agencies and individuals listed.
- Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation: Online support and resource network for families dealing with early onset bipolar disorder. www.bpkids.org
- National Alliance on Mental Illness: National advocacy and support group for family members of people with mental illness. www.nami.org
- Schizophrenia.com: Schizophrenia.com is a non-profit web community dedicated to providing information, support and education to the family members, caregivers and individuals whose lives have been impacted by schizophrenia.
- Families for Depression Awareness: National nonprofit providing education and support for family members of people with depressive disorders. www.familyaware.org
OTHER BOOKS AND WEBSITES
- Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey through Schizophrenia, by Carolyn Spiro, MD and Pamela Spiro Wagner
- Pamela Spiro Wagner's blog on Schizophrenia.com
- Madhouse: Growing up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings, by Clea Simon
- The Normal One: Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling, by Jeanne Safer
- Troubled Journey, by Diane Marsh and Rex Dickens
- Serious Mental Illness in the Family, by Diane Marsh
- Surviving Schizophrenia
- Stanley Medical Institute
- Imagining Robert, by Jay Neugeboren (and a film by Florentine Films
- Unholy Ghost, Nell Casey, ed.








Deb with Audrey (left) and Rose Stanas: family members in Southern New Hampshire. Not pictured: Olivia Stanas and Bruce Stanas
Clea Simon, author of Madhouse: Growing up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings
Pam and Carolyn Spiro, authors, Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia