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4 - Sibling Caregiver Accounts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Juliana Onwumere
Affiliation:
King's College London
David Shiers OBE
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Elizabeth Kuipers OBE
Affiliation:
King's College London
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My brother was different right from childhood. A lot of firsts in the family were witnessed in him. The age gap between him and his immediate younger sibling was the shortest (less than two years). He stood and walked later than his five siblings and he was the only one to have a febrile seizure. However, my brother was also more sociable than anyone else in our family; the only one interested in the entertainment industry. As a child, sometimes he would manifest some baffling behaviours that our straitlaced family found difficult to understand. This led to punishments in an effort to curb some of these behaviours. I think because he was punished more often than the well-behaved siblings, perhaps he had a feeling of not being loved as much as they were.

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Coping with Psychosis and Schizophrenia
Family Stories of Hope and Recovery
, pp. 48 - 63
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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