Late-Onset Schizoaffective Disorder: One Family's Story

Steve Schmitmeyer, our guest speaker, was a successful engineer, loving husband, and father before struck by late-onset schizoaffective
disorder in the 1990s. At the time, medications were crude and NAMI was
fairly new. Linda Schmitmeyer chronicled the family’s struggle to love,
understand and help Steve in Rambler: a Family Pushes through the Fog of Mental Illness. Linda’s
brave and often frustrating and thankless struggle is an example for
us, even today, when such situations more often than not lead to divorce
and the disintegration of the family. Her book also shares how Steve
persevered to become the loving father and husband he had once been. Sponsored by the National Alliance for Mental Illness and the Friends of the Athens Public Library.