![]() She also runs a peer-support group that helps families cope with having a loved one with mental illness.īlinkhorn says that mental health treatment has come a long way “from the days of strapping my family down,” but says the system in her part of Nova Scotia isn’t providing the care people need. From the time she was placed in foster care at age five because her mother and grandmother had severe schizophrenia, she knew of the devastating effects it could have on families and relationships.īy 12, she was absorbing issues of Psychology Today, and now she’s as likely to be giving advice to her neighbours in Pictou County on the challenges of dealing with the mental health system as she is to be selling houses through her brokerage in New Glasgow. Sherry Blinkhorn has experienced the effects of mental illness most of her life.
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