By Tom Naughton
Mercer County Community College New Jersey
Terry Ferreira grew up working at his family’s bicycle shop in New Amsterdam, near his country’s psychiatric hospital. No one could have predicted the events that followed: that almost a half a century later he would return to Guyana, with a bicycle, and proceed on a journey through the Americas, the States, and finally Canada, to help end the stigma of mental illness.
Terry’s journey began on a back porch in New Jersey, where a friend told him about his daughter’s struggle with bipolar illness.
