His Body Was There, but My Son Was Gone - Huguette Bourgeois @JeffreyPvanLeeuwen
His Body Was There, but My Son Was Gone - Huguette Bourgeois  @JeffreyPvanLeeuwen
Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Huguette Bourgeois shares an emotional, powerful story about her youngest son’s sudden diagnosis with schizophrenia, describing the devastating experience of feeling like she’d lost her child to an illness she never saw coming. In a deeply personal reflection, she vividly recalls a terrifying moment of realization and the dark spiral of despair she faced—an event that ultimately became the painful yet transformative turning point in her life.

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"His Body Was There, but My Son Was Gone" - Huguette Bourgeois

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