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CINDY SOSTCHEN, Poetry Editor "Eileen has two passions: writing poetry and working with clients diagnosed with a mental illness."
As We Begin A New Century By KEN STEELE, Publisher "We are the last great civil rights movement of this past century ... In the next one, we will have the science, the organized voting strength and the means to leave our ghettos of isolation behind us."
New Health Care Reform Act By RICHARD N. GOTTFRIED "We won an extraordinary victory for all New Yorkers when the final packages were negotiated and passed in December."
Out to Prove Them Wrong By SHARON GRAVENER "I have two sons who spent years in foster care because no one believed or will ever believe that I am capable of taking care of my sons again."
An Alternative to PACT By DANIEL FISHER, M.D., Ph.D. and LAURIE AHERN "Our research has shown that the most important element in recovery is having someone to assist you who believes in you and understands you."
MHANYS' 2000 Legislative Program By JOSEPH A. GLAZER, Esq "the 2000 Legislative Program is based on testimony offered by mental health advocates at the MHANYS Annual Public Hearing in October."
Improving Employment Opportunities for Persons with Mental Disabilities By TERRENCE MURRAY "eighty-five to ninety percent of individuals living with serious mental illness are unemployed in New York State - reprint from MANYS' Community Connections
Ask the Pharmacist By STEVE KAUFMAN, RPH "It showed an elderly man, bald head and hair growing out of his ears. He was not dirty but quite disheveled and wearing a pharmacist badge."
Ask the Therapist By RITA SEIDEN, C.S.W., Ph.D "I've fallen in love with my therapist. I don't know what to do." |
Families and Consumers:
Coalescing Constituencies
By LAURIE FLYNN "Ken and the Voter Empowerment Project give consumers and families, NAMI and NMHA, and you and me, a place to work together. And working together, we truly can change the world."
Millennium Brings Voter Project National By ELLEN ALDERTON "Some 40 million American adults are estimated to experience psychiatric symptoms, and many of these individuals are under the mistaken impression that they are not allowed to vote."
Work Incentive Act is Law By DAVID KELLOGG "The new law should ... give more Americans with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the workforce"
New Era for Mental Health By NEAL L. COHEN, M.D. "We are still making up for decades of neglect in adequately caring for people with mental illness, but in the past ten years we have made an impressive start."
Andrew Goldstein Trial By PATRICIA WARBURG CLIFF "The Webdale family is to be commended for the lawsuits that they are bringing against the hospitals which denied Mr. Goldstein care."
Stigmabusters Network By JOE RODGERS "Their 'smoking gun' approach to confronting stereotypes in the media is simple, it often works, and it opens doors to key figures in the media industry."
Empowering Ourselves Edited by DANIEL FREY "Supportive Housing applications are generally prepared by a case manager... However, other individuals, including a consumer advocate, peer specialist, and family members often assist" Surgeon General Issues Mental Health Report "A breakthrough document on the status of mental health"
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Accepting Schizophrenia
By JENNIFER CLIFT "I could see in his face I had hit a nerve. Tears filled his eyes. He had agreed! ... I could now grab him by the hand and swim up to the surface of the water ... and take a deep breath."
Medications Changed My Life By KATHLEEN McCAIN "After surviving my ups and downs for several years, my children became too ashamed of me and went to live with my parents. That hurt."
Symptoms Help Me Manage My Illness By EDITH BRIDGE "I manage my symptoms. They no longer take center stage as a negative force. Symptoms are like nerves connected to my psyche. When they pulse, I respond."
Growing Better By RIK STEVENS "Her mind was 'I have to dig a hole to plant this plant.' It's not an exercise she's doing. She looked down at her arm and said, 'You tricked me.'"
Parity Matters to Me By LISA GIBSON "This national debate is about illnesses that are just as real and treatable as cancer, heart disease or diabetes."
Looking Back in History By PETER BREGGIN, M.D. "Psychiatry begins in the 17th century in France with the state mental hospital system. Before the state mental hospital system there was virtually no psychiatry."
"To Be or Not to Be" By DANIEL FREY "two overriding facts became clear: my life would never be the same again; and I had a choice of living out of control with the disease or managing the illness with the medicine."
My Sister, My Struggle "I sink down in my seat, hoping that she won't see me; that she won't call out. I don't want anyone to know she knows me."
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Poetry Editor By CINDY SOSTCHEN "So let me introduce myself...."
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