Helping Families Cope with Serious Mental Illness: Maternal vs Social Work Instincts

• By: Ruth Colón-Wagner, LMSW VCS Inc.
• July 19th, 2023
• healing, hope, parenting, recovery, resiliency, serious mental illness, Summer 2023 Issue, trauma
• 1853    0

I am a Social Worker. I am also a mom of an adult child with SMI, specifically bi-polar disorder. My child is 23 and I pray that she welcomes God into her life. That’s the mom in me talking. As a social worker, I want her to get a job, find a great partner who will love her, and become as...