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The Tree Outside the Window

R. Burrow

At the young of age of seven, Jill's mother Eve takes her for regular sessions to a child psychologist for treatment of her anxiety, which only makes her behavior worse. When she reaches her teens, she starts drinking and then smoking marijuana with her boyfriends, which make her paranoid. Her father Donald had a moderate case of schizophrenia, and so the combination of drugs, schizophrenic genes that run in the family, and a dysfunctional homelife, lead to her first psychotic breakdown when she is about fifteen. She then goes on to suffer from schizophrenic episodes on and off for years. This story is about Jill's fight with schizophrenia and the mental health system, and how she changes her life.

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ABOUT R. BURROW


R. Burrow grew up in a small, hilly town in West Virginia. Before graduating high school, she began to suffer from symptoms of schizophrenia and would continue to struggle with the illness for the next ten years of her life. After years of living a quiet home life, she felt a sudden and strong desire to tell her story. It was then, at age thirty-one, that she began to write about her experiences, in the hope that it would educate and inform others from the rarely heard point of view of the patient.