This book was so wonderful on so many levels. I thought Patrick Kennedy was very brave to write it – and I absolutely understand why it was written after his father’s passing. The way he grew up hearing from his dad and very extended famous family that we keep everything in the family and don’t air our dirty laundry helped to keep him from truly confronting and defeating his own demons. The authors do a great job in giving information about how our healthcare system and government succeed and fail at treating people with mental illness and addiction. Ultimately this is a book about successes and failures, but mostly about hope in dealing with these two very important issues.