Mental illness in the eyes of mother and child

At 39, “Maria” thought she had seen it all. She was 14 when she first suffered symptoms of a mental disorder. Orphaned, she dropped out of school in Primary Five, did menial jobs, was abandoned by family, friends and the fathers of her three daughters and was humiliated when she ran naked in broad daylight in a Kampala suburb, where she lived with her in-laws.