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Miriam Feldman

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Miriam Feldman is a painter, writer, and mother originally from Los Angeles, California. After her son, Nick's, diagnosis with Schizophrenia more than ten years ago, she began writing to document and explore the ways this new reality affected her relationship with her children, her husband, and herself. Her memoir, He Came in With It, explores issues of motherhood, mental illness and the politics of our mental health system.

She is also the founder and owner of Demar Feldman Studios, Inc., a specialty painting company that focuses on architectural finishes, murals, and decorative art for residential and commercial locations in Southern California and abroad. She holds an MFA in fine art from Otis College of Art and Design. Her paintings ar
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“Mother love—it rushes through our veins, escapes sometimes in the form of salt water at the intersection of eyelids and the edge underneath, but it will never leave us. There is no real exit. It doesn’t wane, mother love. It lives in the body, the corporeal residence of grief, loss, and joy. All this commotion might reside in my heart. Or in a fingernail, or my lower back. Who knows? But this I know for sure: I hold it in my body. The same body that grew them.”
Miriam Feldman, He Came in With It: A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness

“negative symptoms are the elements that are lost to the person with the disease, such as the ability to feel emotions, to reason logically, to empathize.”
Miriam Feldman, He Came in With It: A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness

“When a boy is in his late teens, there is a synaptic pruning of sorts that occurs in the brain in order to mature and function in its adult form. It’s a dispensing of the connective material that has built up since birth but is no longer needed, and it is quickly replaced. But there is a brief period of vacancy, when the brain is vulnerable to any sort of disruption. The mind is somewhat unprotected, and that is the stage of life”
Miriam Feldman, He Came in With It: A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness

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