Zoë's story

The EADT, Suffolk and Essex's daily newspaper online, featured an article a couple days ago about a woman, Dorothy Schwarz, who recently published a book about her daughter's struggle with bipolar disorder. The article is followed up by another article about why Dorothy felt she should make their family's tragedy—Zoë killed herself at 27—public.
Both articles are extremely powerful, mostly because the family was well-heeled, had plenty of resources and was yet still mired in the kind of ignorance that allowed Zoë's behavior to seem more annoying than pathological. It seems clear she could have been helped if her symptoms were identified sooner.
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Comments
This has to be one of the most heartbreaking stories you've posted to date. A beautiful, intelligent young woman, with her whole life still ahead of her, a supportive family, and yet she felt so trapped.
What a tragedy.
Posted by: BJK | July 28, 2006 10:23 AM