Are You Schizophrenic Quiz?
The release of the new movie "The Soloist" this week tells the story of Nathaniel Ayers, a promising string bass player whose musical training at the Juilliard School was cut short by schizophrenia. But the story is all too familiar to the family of William "Bill" Garrett, a Maryland teenager who became lost within his own schizophrenia and had to leave John Hopkins University after winning a full, four-year scholarship. In this article, a reporter talks to Garrett's family about how the...
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