Abilify and schizoaffective disorder

You have Reactive Attachment Disorder. And you have Reactive Attachment Disorder. Everyone gets Reactive Attachment Disorder!

Couple of slight nitpicky thing, more for fact check and didn't detract for me from this masterpiece.
First, the stock trading stuff. That was my profession and training for decades. Stocks are not a zero sum game. Commodities trading is (so is gambling, etc). You also mentioned he was trading commodities on the stock exchanges. Commodities have their own separate exchanges. He hadn't taken profit while he was asleep, but had a stop-loss. Day traders put in profit taking order and stop-losses at the same time typically because their profit taking point can be hit when they are not watching the screen and move back. Last point, that he couldn't get into another trade because all his money was tied up into that one trade. No successful day trader or investor would be successful in the long term (no matter how good he/she is) will be successful if he was investing everything in one idea (or trade). At the most one should be risking no more than 5% of their investable funds into any one idea or trade. Money management is at least 50% of being a successful trader/investor.
I don't think you got the schizoaffective part right either. I have, unfortunately, become a sort of expert on it because a family member suffers from that particular disorder. Schizoaffective disorder is a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and it is believed to be likely genetic and starts manifesting itself from teenage years, although early on people see it as that person being kind of quirky (just how they are), but not necessarily mentally ill. Triggers or certain stresses later on (death of a loved one, divorce, etc) ends up bringing it out in full force. Interestingly one of the main symptoms is that they become paranoid that their significant other is cheating on them (when they are not), but of course in this case she had. People suffering from schizophrenic disorder (overwhelmingly women btw and rare in men), they exhibit the false paranoia, delusions and hallucinations of a schizophrenic, and the manic and depressive behavior of someone who is bipolar. While it is treatable with medication and psychotherapy, it is not something temporary that they never have to worry about ever again. It is a lifelong condition, and even when they are doing better through psychotherapy (they learn to spot the triggers as they start to occur) and medication, it's a lifelong struggle as future triggers have the potential to do them in again. Another huge problem for people suffering with schizoaffective disorder is that they will never be convinced that there is something wrong with them, but that their cheating spouse is fooling everyone into believing that they are mentally ill (none of that exhibited by the MC). From the description of the MC's condition I didn't see any of the symptoms of someone schizoaffective outside of the depression. And like I said I can, unfortunately, name the top ten symptoms of someone schizoaffective off the top of my head.
The above wasn't to make you wrong, SleeperyJim. You wrote another masterpiece, that I'm in awe of. I think this story was very much needed on LW, and if people see themselves in this story it will do them much good, again, especially LW readers. But I think fact checking is important as well, but again doesn't take even one bit from this story for me.

PGAD stands for persistent genital arousal disorder, a real disorder.

For a series that had a questionable started, it developed into a wonderful story. The author has done a wonderful job of developing the characters, logically developing plots, and has done a fair job of describing the world in which a family lives in when a member has a schizoaffective disorder. This is a tough subject to write about and even toucher to understand by a third party. Based on the numberof subplots that have been left hanging, this author has the potential to write an additional 10-15 chapters if he/she chooses. I hopethey do. This is a 5 star series. I hope the author is proud of their work.

Attention Deficit Writers Disorder ???

Can we say “personality disorder”?

Having slept on it for a night I've come to the conclusion that Cecily is likely suffering from Schizoaffective Disorder, or something similar. Everything that happened, especially after she moves to her basement apartment were likely delusions and hallucinations. Schizoaffective Disorder is the combination of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. There were plenty of hints she may be suffering from bipolar disorder such as clinical depression and manic obsessive behavior (her interest in Axel). There were some hints of schizophrenia (her paranoia), but schizophrenia also involves delusions (misinterpreting what everyone sees or hears) and hallucinations (seeing things that no one else sees or hears).
However, to be able to tell if Cecily truly had schizophrenia we would have to know what reality was to know how much, if any, were delusions and hallucinations.
Today, a day after initially reading the story, I've come to the conclusion that Cecily was schizophrenic, and likely suffered from Schizoaffective Disorder, and everything after she moved into her basement apartment is completely suspect. Typically, both schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders have triggers which are usually something traumatic happening in the life of someone that has a predisposition (usually these disorders have some genetic component and run in families) to these disorders. Axel and Minah marrying and Cecily being cast out, and on top of that to a very poor environment (that lonely dingy dark apartment) could have been that trigger.
It is very hard for me to accept that Minah who was the epitome of a great human being turns out to be so evil. We are told Minah is best friends with and tolerated Cecily who at the least was someone that is off. Then Minah is the exact opposite of a bridezilla during her wedding. When Natasha reacts semi-normally to Cecily almost spilling red wine on Minah's wedding dress, Minah immediately shrugs it off and says it's just a dress. She is the epitome of kindness, graciousness and spirit of generosity. But then we are to believe that same person who instinctively reacts like that, and is so kind to someone like Cecily, is also a husband beater, a cheater, a complete manipulator. It completely didn't add up to me.
I also didn't buy Axel being beaten by Minah. I can see a 250 lb fat wife beating up on a 5'2 120 lb husband. I can buy husband putting up with the abuse of a mentally ill wife, because he loves her. But I couldn't buy tall, muscular Axel putting up with being beat up by the tiny little woman that Minah is portrayed as. I even made some allowances that Axel had some psychological predisposition to putting up with it, but even then I wasn't buying it.
So, if the above are true, then the only thing I can conclude that everything was a delusion and hallucinations of Cecily. Minah never beat up Axel. Minah never cheated with Blaine. Cecily never got pregnant. And Cecily never got Axel. It was all delusions and hallucinations by Cecily. We don't know for sure when the trigger was as it could've been even earlier when they lived together, but I believe it was when Cecily was told Minah and Axel were going to get married and she moved into that apartment.
And there is no way to know if Blaine even existed at all.
And that obviously makes this story even sadder, cause we see the complete breakdown of a person's mind suffering from a major mental illness. There is no way to know if I came to the right conclusion on this, because we don't know what the reality is to know how much of what Cecily relates to us is true, and how much were delusions and hallucinations (if any). But I feel pretty confident that I reached the right conclusion.