For Pete's Sake: A Son Reflects on His Father's Forty-Seven Year Confinement with Mental Illness

TLC? Tender loving care, remember? Tender loving care about those in hospitals, nursing homes,mental facilities, schools, disconnected families, underprivileged children, anabandoned spouse, and all we who faceour limitations and dont know where to turn?A Nigerian proverb says, Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worse. Not to hope isunthinkable. Not to care is unforgiveable.Let me tell you about Pete, myDad, so that you may know him. I wrote this book feeling that maybe you wouldwant to know about this mental patient who spent forty-seven years inconfinement. His life seemed worthless,of no value to society. After his deathat eighty-seven, I thought again, this time with hope that there was a way toredeem his existence.FOR PETES SAKE helps you to become awareof mental health issues in our ordinary circumstances. From my g-g-grandparents conception, throughour childhood and schooling in rural Sullivan County, Indiana, through theState hospital and nursing home experiences of Pete, through the triumph of myMom, through questions of faith, purpose, and meaning, we learned to hope andcare.Meet PETE as Rip Van Winkle IIand learn, hope, and care about the mentally ill and their families.