Raising Special Needs Children & Stress

In her compelling memoir Still Life, author Gillian Marchenko recounts her struggles with depression. In this excerpt, Marchenko shares the challenge of raising special-needs children:

My friend Ashley read an article about special-needs parents and stress. It said that the chemical composition of the blood of high-stress parents is identical to that of soldiers fresh out of battle. She also read that the DNA of special-needs parents unravels at a rate far greater than the norm.

“Well, it makes…