The Galvin Family – The Untold Truth Behind Six Schizophrenic Brothers

12 children. 6 diagnoses. One family that changed the science of schizophrenia forever — and paid for it with everything they had. The Galvin family of Colorado Springs looked like the perfect postwar American dream: a decorated Air Force officer, a devoted mother, and 12 handsome, athletic children raised on Hidden Valley Road. But behind closed doors, one by one, six of the ten brothers fell to the same diagnosis — schizophrenia — and the family that medicine, blamed for decades turned out to hold the genetic key that science had been searching for all along. This is the full story of the Galvin family: Donald, Jim, Brian, Joseph, Matthew, and Peter — the true story behind Hidden Valley Road and the HBO documentary Six Schizophrenic Brothers. The brothers, the secrets the family kept hidden, the mother blamed by an entire generation of psychiatry, and the two youngest daughters who survived it all and gave their family's story to the world. TOPICS COVERED: Galvin family schizophrenia • Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker • Six Schizophrenic Brothers HBO documentary • Mimi and Don Galvin • Donald Galvin schizophrenia • Brian Galvin • Jim Galvin • Peter Galvin • Matthew Galvin • Joseph Galvin • Lindsay Galvin Rauch • Margaret Galvin • schizophrenia genetics SHANK2 CHRNA7 • Lynn DeLisi schizophrenia research • Robert Freedman choline research • mental illness American family • Colorado Springs Air Force Academy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Welcome to History Mark Exposed — where the most famous names in History hides the stories no one talks about. Subscribe for new stories every week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to History Mark Exposed so you never miss a story. 👍 Like, comment, and share if this moved you. 📚 Based on Robert Kolker's Hidden Valley Road (Knopf, 2020), Publicly available records and interviews. Presented for educational and biographical purposes. #GalvinFamily #schizophrenia #HiddenValleyRoad #familytrauma #documentary #darkhistory