If someone had said to me a few years ago, I would write and publish this book “An Awkward Fit" about mental illness and grief I would have said that’s crazy not me it will never happen.

   But here I am having done exactly that, wanting to help prevent others from going through what we have.

   A couple of days after our son Stephen died I was packing up his belongings when I discovered a journal in his hand writing.

   He had written about his life. And what it was like living with a Mental Illness, such deep soul searching words intimate descriptions on the emotional traumas he suffered as he struggled to cope with life.

   Let me start by telling you a little about our son.

   Right from a small child he had great visions of a successful future. When he was young Stephen had been a very sensitive and loving child but he often did things that were out of the square - different. He was talented in music, maths and literacy and had a very creative mind.

   As he grew older things started going wrong for him. He became depressed and later diagnosed with schizophrenia and at 29. He ended his life by suicide.

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