Maria Halphen and Susie Hincks had been close friends for a long time. As often happens in life, they lost touch but, while Maria was visiting her mother in Australia in 2011, they bumped into each other again. As they caught up with each other’s lives, Maria learned of Susie’s on-going struggle with schizophrenia and was devastated when Susie confessed that she’d lost most of her “twenties” to mental illness.