Rebbie Jackson Opens Up About Daughter’s Struggle With Mental Illness

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Rebbie Jackson Opens Up About Daughter’s Struggle With Mental Illness

Posted at 02/21/2011 by Staff 0 Comment

Rebbie Jackson’s speaking out about her daughter, Yashi Brown’s ongoing struggles with mental illness. The 33 year old suffers from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

According to FOX411′s Pop Tarts:

The Jackson family has certainly been served many ups and downs. Now the eldest of the Jackson children, 60-year-old Rebbie Jackson, is opening up about her daughter Yashi Brown’s battle with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in an attempt to reduce to stigma surrounding mental illness.

“It was such a hard thing, it has all been an experience I will never ever forget and all I wanted was to find a solution or a way in which Yashi could just solve the problems,” Jackson told FOX411’s Pop Tarts. “A lot of people are have these disorders and they don’t know it because there are very different degrees of bipolar. So many people have this but they can’t figure out what their problem is. So you have to get to the core of the problem, expose it and accept it does exist, and then you can go about learning how to deal with it.”

In attempt to reach out to other families dealing with mental illness, Brown, now 33, is releasing the book “Black Daisy in a White Limousine: 77 Poems.”

“The poems date back to when I was in my teens to now. You can see some of the emotional changes and you get a sense of the true honest expression of all the things I’ve experienced with life, with family, love and all of that. You get a sense of what it is that we’re talking about,” Brown told Pop Tarts.

Brown’s mental illnesses went undiagnosed for several years, and it wasn’t until she was in her early twenties that the medical profession was able to pinpoint her problems. But due to the support of her family and the power of prayer, she now feels she is in a place to help other sufferers through their journey.