Author of the article: Rita Mingo • For the Calgary Herald Fran and Andy Porter have been fuelled by the personal grief of their daughter’s death to support improved treatment for mental health issues in Calgary. Photo by Gavin Young /Postmedia Fran and Andy Porter have endured the greatest heartache parents can go through. Their mission in life is now to help others experiencing the same grief. Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Their daughter, Colleen, took her life in 2010 after a long struggle with borderline personality disorder. Since that time, the Porters have devoted much of their time speaking and writing about mental health. One such endeavour was Fran’s book, When the Ship has no Stabilizers, which actually began as a letter to Colleen’s daughter, Jaimie, now 25 and a nurse. Jaimie was adopted by the Porters’ elder daughter and her husband. “I tried to be as accurate as I could,” Fran said. “It became obvious very quickly to me that it was going to have to be a book; it became a memoir. A good half of it is medical; I did quite a bit of research into borderline personality disorder.”…
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Compelling Calgarians: Fran and Andy Porter | Calgary Herald
