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Saving Amanda: One Family’s Struggle To Deal With A Daughter’s Mental Illness

Pam and Amanda Lipp on Tuesday, December 15, 2015

By: Jenny Gold

In March 2010, Pam Lipp received the call she’d been dreading for months. She figured it would come from one of three places: the police, the hospital or the morgue. Instead, it was her husband, Doug, saying that he’d just received word that their 18-year-old daughter, Amanda, a freshman at Chico State University in California, was being held at a psychiatric crisis center after trying to throw herself in front of a moving car. Amanda had lost her grip on reality and fallen into a state of psychosis. She’d started selling off her belongings and believed that cameras were following her everywhere. [Read more…]

Source: Kaiser Health News

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