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Author Doris Bibbs Shares Chilling Story of Her

And Siblings Growing Up with a Schizophrenic Mother in Moving

Autobiographical Novel "Breaking the Glass Cage"

Sylvia Dickerson has been a devoted military wife to her husband, Frank Dickerson, for ten years,

and has been a caring mother to her seven children. Unbeknownst to herself and her loving family,

she struggles silently with paranoia traits. One night, while her husband is away for military

training, Sylvia becomes engulfed by her illusions and wakes her children in a hysterical fit. The

children find themselves caught in an uninviting world as they try to determine where the illusions

end and reality begins.

ATLANTA, GA--Each of us has had an occasion to observe some abnormal behaviors of persons who

suffer from a mental disorder known as paranoid schizophrenia. When in their presence, we find

ourselves feeling uncomfortable and even frightened. Imagine what it must have been like for eight

siblings growing up with a loving and caring mother who frequently exhibited signs of delusions,

auditory hallucinations (hearing voices), and other symptoms that her children found confusing and

downright scary. Author Doris Bibbs shares those puzzling and terrifying experiences in her

brilliantly-written autobiographical novel "Breaking the Glass Cage" (iUniverse, Inc., ISBN-10:

0595270603, paperback, 190pp)