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Health Legislation in Congress By ANDREW SPERLING "The just completed Congressional session failed to produce a range of popular bills that had broad bipartisan support in both the House and Senate." Mental Health Legislative Year in Review By MICHAEL SEEREITER "If 2001 was any indication of it, New York's mental health was in grave danger for 2002." Medicaid Buy-In Coming To New York! A story about how people on disability will be able to keep their Medicaid while working. Medication Stories: Readers sharing their personal experiences with treatment We asked our readers to tell their medication stories. NAMI-NYS 20th Anniversary Conference: Medications and stigma were hot issues By IRINA ORZEANU " Dr. Goodwin defined stigma as 'prejudicial attitudes and behaviors regarding mental illness, the mentally ill, and/or mental health professionals, whose roots are ignorance, fear, and a sense of helplessness.'" What I Learned from Columbia University's Depression Conference: Lecture on ECT found informative By CARL BLUMENTHAL "The more ECT a consumer undergoes, the more likely that despair interferes with their compliance. Still, some people do benefit from ECT. For these folks, it should not be banned as some psychiatric survivors advocate." My Non-Reaction to 9-11 By HOWARD KWASS "For me and those like me, who feel next to nothing, all I really want our reaction [to human suffering] to be is healthy and normal." Op-ed A Common yet Unfamiliar Mental Illness: We need to understand borderline personality disorder By JUNE BINGHAM "The newest psychiatric category, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), is hardly known to the lay world. " NAMI NYC Metro's Gala Awards Night "The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill's (NAMI) New York City Metro affiliate held its annual awards gala November 12th at the New York Palace Hotel. " Ask the Therapist: Getting Into The Holiday Groove By RITA SEIDEN, C.S., Ph.D "How do I get through holiday dinner with relatives if I have just gotten out of the hospital?" |
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NYC Voices Medication Survey: Preliminary Results By STEPHEN M. GOLDFINGER, MD "… I find this quite out of line with my own clinical experience. Almost no people take their medications exactly as prescribed…. Are you telling us what you think we want to hear?" Consumers' Rights When Applying to Licenced Mental Health Housing By Columnists LAUREN BHOLAI-PARETI, Policy Analyst, and DANIEL STERN "All supportive housing programs that serve people with mental illness operate under rules and regulations. However, different sets of regulations apply to different models of housing, depending on who licenses or funds the program." Mad in America: So What Else is New? By CARL BLUMENTHAL "After all his dogged research and writing, it is a shame that Mr. Whitaker feels pessimistic about improving the mental health system…. Nevertheless, consumers have on their side an eloquent writer whose story should prod the conscience of mental health professionals for a long time." Work is Important in My Recovery By WILLIAM JIANG, MLS "New York Works is what has enabled me to work part-time and keep my all-important benefits. Before [NY Works]… I was deathly afraid of going to work because I didn't want to lose my benefits that allow me to see a psychiatrist and get my medicine." Photo Exhibit Shines Light
of Day on Mental Illness Book Review: 30th Anniversary of Women and Madness By CARL BLUMENTHAL "The gains made by white, middle-class feminists have been "too little"; men still rule the world. However, the struggle to liberate women around the world has expanded "quite a lot."
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Schizophrenia Drug Does Wonders By DAVID ADAMS "I found out that there is hope and a much better life with the new generation of anti-psychotics that are now available.... There is a real life possible-even with schizophrenia-not just survival." Positive Thinking with Recovery, Inc. By CARL BLUMENTHAL "Dr. Low believed in a cure. We're a self-help group. But I believe in a cure by 'chipping away at the fear of a permanent handicap.' Recovery is not some mystery. Mentally healthy people do it naturally, without any training." Op-Ed: Are Medications Allies or Enemies? By KURT DOUGLAS SASS "…medications are definitely an ally, but are most effective when you have an ally in your psychiatrist as well." Book Review: First Aid to Mental Illness By LANCE JAFFE "This mental 'first-aid kit' emphasizes practical ways to help and heal such as healthy breathing techniques, visualization of peaceful places and the acceptance of the illness as a reality and how to recognize when the next step is to bring in professional help." Electroboy's Crusade: Author Andy Behrman's views on treatments for mental illness By MICHAEL REISS "Find the right medications, seek new treatments, and choose a doctor who seems honest and forthcoming. These are all things that Andy would agree are essential to making it through the long, dark tunnel of mental illness." Unfair Medicare: One Man's Account of Our System of Care By JOHN GREGOR, Ph.D. "Ours is the only advanced country that is free from the purported evils of 'socialized medicine.' This is because the affluent are unwilling to pay more taxes to benefit the poor and the lower middle class, and because the powerful special interests that greatly profit from the present situation are unwilling to surrender their unfair advantages." Reinvestment II Vetoed by Governor Subtitle: Promises new Reinvestment bill in January "Governor Pataki issued a stunning veto of legislation known as Reinvestment II. This bill would put into the community mental health sector savings realized from the elimination of state psychiatric hospital beds." Dialogue for Recovery
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