resonating as the psofallapt, place the effe of that on the other family members-- the grief, the glt, the apprension, the desperation--i think, really, that, uh, then evolves in the tragedy of this illness. whathere is good evidence for is that the family, just as awhere a persontion with a serious disabling and often bie and unpredictable lness is living and interacting, the family situation can be affected,e lness this is a chronic, disabling,an. by this kind of an illness. it's difficultor the patient. it difficult forhe fily, especially when the young person involved has had very promising rlier life ansuddenly is afflted by this illness anbecomes disabled. the family eeriences great amounts of stress. i think that he was more or ls separated from the famy and wanting to be secretive about what he was doing. jeff's parents discuss the disruption in their family when they firsrealized their son had schizophrenia. inhe vy rly stage, of crs we were entirely, i mean, the whole experience s so new to us, and we ctainly did not connect the experience with schizophria that's something thawe lrned about