Laura Lauzen-Collins, a professor at Moraine Valley Community College, talks about her son, Jeremy Browning, at her office at the school in Palos Hills, IL on Wednesday, October 10, 2012. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
Laura Lauzen-Collins, a professor at Moraine Valley Community College, talks about her son, Jeremy Browning, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
Laura Lauzen-Collins, a professor at Moraine Valley Community College, talks about her son, Jeremy Browning, who has a condition that has caused him to suffer delusions and to even attempt suicide. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
Laura Lauzen-Collins, a professor at Moraine Valley Community College, talks about her son, Jeremy Browning. To save his life, she had him sent to a home in Utah. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
Laura Lauzen-Collins, a professor at Moraine Valley Community College, talks about her son, Jeremy Browning, at her office at the school in Palos Hills, IL on Wednesday, October 10, 2012. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
The worst came after the crisis — after she found him unconscious, foaming at the mouth, snoring so loudly she could hear the rasps outside the building. He was taken in an ambulance, put on a ventilator and treated for an overdose. When he awoke, …