Coping with mental illness: a family's struggle for peace.

PROBLEM

Families struggle with the day-to-day worrying about behaviors of acting out at school and work, and the loss of normalcy that they used to have in their everyday lives. Families with a loved one with mental illness live in an almost constant state of uncertainty due to the unpredictability of the illness.

CONCLUSIONS

This article addresses the challenges inherent to the acute psychiatric admission process of a patient and family.