My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir

This memoir was a fascinating read, exploring a husband's journey through his wife's mental illness, requiring hospitalization, myriad appointments, various medications, and adaptation to a new normal. I appreciated the author's honesty regarding the frustration, impatience, and uncertainty that often accompanied the ups and downs his family experienced due to his wife's mental illness. He doesn't sugarcoat anything, but readers can also see his commitment to walking with his wife throughout it all when others perhaps would not have wanted to stay the course.

I would recommend this book to mental health professionals who could benefit from reading the firsthand experiences of a caregiver of someone with mental illness. Caregivers in similar positions may also benefit from reading in not feeling as alone and seeing the value of having strong social support like this family does.