Just hit #4 on Amazon Best Sellers in Genetic Disorders & Diseases. Why My Sister? / ¿Por Qué Mi Hermana? by Consuelo Walss-Bass, PhD (psychiatric geneticist, UTHealth Houston) Schizophrenia is ~80% heritable. Identical twins share 100% of their genes; yet concordance is under 50%. Same genes. Same childhood. Same kitchen table. Five siblings. Only one (her sister Paty) developed schizophrenia. A raw three-generation family memoir (Mexico ↔ U.S.) woven with clear science on genetics, epigenetics, trauma, brain organoids, and why genes are not destiny. Featured in BBC Mundo, El País, and more. Endorsed by leaders in the field. English Kindle: amazon.com/dp/B0H6Q4QGL8 Español Kindle: amazon.com/dp/B0H44159SR (Print also available.) 👉 whymysister.com/ #Schizophrenia #MentalHealth #Genetics #WhyMySister

🧵 1/8 El mismo fondo genético. La misma casa. ¿Por qué mi hermana tiene esquizofrenia y yo no? Consuelo Walss-Bass lleva 20 años buscando la respuesta. Su libro se lee mucho en España. Domingo 18, 20:00 (hora peninsular): El Respeto con @PabloFuente 👉 amazon.es/dp/B0H44159SR

🧵 1/6 La misma carga genética. El mismo hogar. La misma infancia. ¿Por qué mi hermana tiene esquizofrenia y yo no? Esa pregunta impulsó más de 20 años de investigación de la científica mexicana Consuelo Walss-Bass. Su libro ¿Por Qué Mi Hermana? está resonando en grandes diarios de Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador y Guatemala.

🧵 1/ Schizophrenia took Consuelo’s mother and sister. It spared the other four children. Same parents. Same childhood. Same chaos. Psychiatric geneticist @whymysister has spent 20+ years asking why. She and @licinio discussed it with @DavidPuder on the Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast. 👉 whymysister.com/

1/6 Heute ist Welttag der psychischen Gesundheit. BBC Mundo hat gerade Consuelo Walss-Bass zu ihrem Buch Why My Sister? interviewt. Schizophrenie ist da. Aber auch alles andere: echte lateinamerikanische Leben – manche glücklich, manche erfolgreich, manche elend. Die Familie ist immer da. Religion im Hintergrund oder im Vordergrund. Lange Geschichten. Keine einfachen Antworten. 👉 warummeineschwester.com/ Jetzt erhältlich. 🧵

2/6 Fünf Geschwister. Dieselben Gene. Dieselbe Kindheit zwischen Mexiko und den Vereinigten Staaten. Vier haben sich ein Leben aufgebaut. Eine nicht. Genau das passiert in echten Familien: unterschiedliche Verläufe, Wege, die sich kreuzen, Türen, die sich schließen, und andere, die sich öffnen.

1/6 Today is World Mental Health Day. BBC Mundo just interviewed Consuelo Walss-Bass about her book Why My Sister? Schizophrenia is there. But so is everything else: real Latin American lives: some happy, some successful, some miserable. Family always present. Religion in the background or the foreground. Long stories. No easy answers. 👉 whymysister.com/ Available now. 🧵

« Tu te trompes. Ta sœur n’a pas de schizophrénie. Je le saurais. » La maladie lui avait déjà pris sa femme. Il ne pouvait pas perdre aussi Paty. Cinq enfants. Les mêmes gènes. La même maison. Une seule est tombée malade. Journée mondiale de la santé mentale. Le thème de cette année : écouter ceux qui l’ont vécu. Mais pourquoi ma sœur ? — Consuelo Walss-Bass. Le livre : pourquoimasoeur.com

«Ti sbagli. Tua sorella non ha la schizofrenia. Lo saprei.» La malattia gli aveva già portato via la moglie. Non poteva perdere anche Paty. Cinque figli. Gli stessi geni. La stessa casa. Una sola si è ammalata. Giornata mondiale della salute mentale. Il tema di quest’anno: ascoltare chi l’ha vissuta. Perché mia sorella? — Consuelo Walss-Bass Il libro: perchemiasorella.com

“You’re wrong. Your sister does not have schizophrenia. I would know.” The illness had already taken his wife. He could not lose Paty too. Five children. The same genes. The same house. Only one fell ill. World Mental Health Day asks us to hear the people who lived it. Why My Sister? — Consuelo Walss-Bass The book: whymysister.com

«Estás equivocada. Tu hermana no tiene esquizofrenia. Yo lo sabría.» La enfermedad ya le había quitado a su mujer. No podía perder también a Paty. Cinco hermanos. Los mismos genes. La misma casa. Una sola enfermó. Mañana es el Día Mundial de la Salud Mental. Este año se pide escuchar a quien lo vivió. ¿Por qué mi hermana? — Consuelo Walss-Bass porquemihermana.com

Same house, same table, two lives unmade. Schizophrenia took her mother and her sister. The question medicine still treats as luck.

They called her the pretty one. She was a model and she was brilliant. THE ILLNESS DID NOT CARE. She was beloved. She was radiant. She married the love of her life. THE ILLNESS DID NOT CARE.

🧵Dr. Walss-Bass has written an extraordinary book, a one of a kind intimate voyage through the reality of schizophrenia, the cancer of mental illness Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D.

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