what paul and norman scates have said.rman scates have said. i am the pa re nt norman scates have said. i am the parent of a daughter who suffers with psychosis. as a parent, your child is diagnosed with a mental illness, and i had no idea. mental illness... ? illness, and i had no idea. mental illness...? where do i go, how do i get help, what is a mental illness. i felt helpless and i still do to this day, knowing how to help her, how to look forward, how to encourage her when things are so desperate, when she is so desperate and so no. doing the marathon is all about talking about mental illness, but it's also enabling people to know how to talk to people with a mental illness. my daughter... when you saw your daughter was struggling, how difficult was it to reach her, was she willing to talk? no. when we knew something was seriously wrong, she had actually stopped talking, so we couldn't talk to her. we had people coming in who we re to her. we had people coming in who were trained to talk to her, and it was were train