Detour from Normal

Description

Ken Dickson was a devoted husband and father and a respected engineer with no history of mental illness. An ordinary surgical procedure changed that, propelling him into a high-security psych ward where psychiatrists branded him a danger to himself and others.

This gut-wrenching novel is leaving readers shocked at the author’s treatment, and appalled by how quickly a medical situation fell through the cracks, sending him spiraling uncontrollably into medically induced madness.

This true story is not, however, only about Ken. It is the story of a husband and wife deeply in love but torn apart by fate, an eye-opening introduction to the stigma of mental illness, and a personal run-in with the poor, broken souls trapped in psychiatric care.

Detour from Normal is a novel that you cannot afford to ignore, with a message that you will not want to dismiss: tomorrow, next year, or five years from now, this could happen to you.