Earlier this month, the Sentinel covered mental illness from the Dade County Jail perspective. We then had the honor of sitting down with Sandra Gentry, a mother who knows all too well how severe mental illness impacts a family.
Gentry’s daughter, now in her early 50s, had her first psychotic break in her late 20s. While tearing up, Gentry told the Sentinel, “She is so desperately ill and needs help, so anything that can bring attention to this very big problem, I’m all in.”
The first sign that Gentry’s daughter was dealing with something serious came after she gave birth to her one and only child in her late 20s. She and her husband were living with his family at the time. Gentry remembers her daughter calling to say that her mother-in-law was trying to take the baby…