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By Maddy Shaw Roberts. Latest features See more Latest features. More From ClassicFM. Sometime there were sufficient details for me to hazard a diagnosis. Such illness in his wife caused Fred to separate from her, though he immediately set up home with a mistress. Mental illness came close to my home when I discovered that my mother had a sister who spent the last years of her life in a mental hospital. Her existence was unknown to my father and me.
My mother had jealously guarded this family secret, explaining her reluctance to talk about her family and thus my ignorance of them. Finding out her secret however, has helped explain a painful episode in my childhood and gain resolution.
I have decided to publish this story primarily to set the record straight about Danny Boy but also, hopefully, to interest others in my journey. I have gained great pleasure from this family research and hope others might do the same. It has involved meeting cousins, unknown to me, from around the world. As a psychiatrist, I was astonished to discover that among the numerous doctors that this family has spawned, there were three more psychiatrists, again completely unknown to me.
No research of this type is ever completed. The book needed correcting, editing and rewriting.
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