"My name is Laura Zawacki. This is my journal. Out of my own frustration I needed to start writing. I always write about Nick."

"Nick got up and he was happy. I started, first of all, just writing for my own edification and my own need to release the frustrations somewhere, and as I started writing, I realized I wasn't just writing for me, I was also writing for Nick."

"We took him to the doctor, and the doctor concluded that he was ADD.  We kind of went with that diagnosis for a while, but, a, it wasn't working and he was given a diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome which is on the autism spectrum, and that seemed a little more right."

"Multiple turns at medication, and again, it's trial and error, you can't even imagine the frustration.  The frustration is so big you think about it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."

"When you make calls to doctors or therapists and you try to get more information, they're busy. My son, my husband, and I have gone through, oh, I would have to say a living nightmare for the past seven years."

"What I've done from my books is taken out the information and put it together in what will be Rochester kids in crisis - a list of psychiatrists, therapists, facilities, group homes, hospitals, and what questions to ask. And I wanted to make sure that no matter what county you were in, you would still know where to go. There are a lot of different things that parents need to know and this handbook is going to give parents all that information so that then when they do walk into a doctor's office, they go in armed, they go in educated, and they know what to ask and what to expect."

For more information on Laura's cause and how you can get her handbook on mental illness resources, click here.