Rachel was a devoted sister and friend who knew how to make people feel seen and valued. But at twenty-six, she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and everything changed.
Still Rachel: Beyond a Diagnosis is an intimate portrait of a brilliant woman whose reality began to fracture, and of the sister who refused to let the illness define her story. Through decades of hallucinations, hospitalizations, and the grinding challenges of severe mental illness, Rachel's essential self remained - her capacity for love, her quick intelligence, her impossible-to-forget presence.
This is not a story of tragedy or triumph, but of something more honest: the daily work of loving someone living with mental illness, the weight of being the one who shows up, who stays, and the determination to remember the fullness of a person the world so easily overlooks.
Written with unflinching honesty and deep tenderness, this memoir reminds us that love sometimes means simply showing up, again and again.
