Until Ken Luce began working with his father, Tom, on the Okay to Say advertising campaign to destigmatize mental illness, he didn’t know his grandmother had suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
“I’m sure it had been mentioned,” says Ken, 55, and owner of LDWWgroup, a Dallas marketing firm, “but not in the context we’re talking about. I knew her as my grandmother.”
He was 3 when the elder Luce, after years of hoping his mother would get better on her own, made the excruciating decision to admit her to Timberlawn psychiatric hospital. She was in treatment there for six months.
“It was horrible,” Tom, 76, says, “because we had to do an involuntary commitment.”
[For more of this story, written by Leslie Barker, go to http://healthblog.dallasnews.c...ntal-health-ok.html/]
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