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CINDY SOSTCHEN, Poetry Editor "Ms. Hollis hopes that people reading her poems will understand that they are not alone"
An Atypical Story in Cuba By MOE ARMSTRONG, MBA, MA "Psychiatrists in Cuba go to the home and walk through life with the patients. He is a side-by-side companion to help keep him stable and find the best medication level."
National Council on Disability Recommends New Rights Protections By DARBY PENNEY "people with psychiatric disabilities have been beaten, shocked, isolated, incarcerated, restricted, raped, deprived of food and bathroom privileges, and physically and psychologically abused."
Teaching the Professionals By DANIEL FREY "When I was treated as an inpatient by psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and staff, I never imagined these professionals would look to me as an educational resource"
A Ballad of Nothing By HOWARD KWASS "Study the loneliness on her face. Study her pain. Let's all not follow a philosophy from a singer who had nothing to lose."
Ask the Pharmacist By STEVE KAUFMAN, RPH "I was recently put on Zyprexa and Cogentin and I'm having difficulty focusing my eyes ... can these medicines cause blindness?"
Ask the Therapist By RITA SEIDEN, C.S.W., Ph.D "You have probably heard the expression 'a danger to self or others' ... both types of behavior have a similar mental origin and need to be regarded very seriously."
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Mother of Suicide
Victim Speaks Out By DAVID KELLOGG "Five days after his suicide, Mrs. Harrington was notified that her son's Medicaid application had been approved."
Special Section...
First Break: A Cycle Going Nowhere By DANIEL FREY "The good news is that if you face down the dragon your life can resume its course ... Since medications are working virtual miracles nowadays, most people can look forward to going back to school or work."
Jails Seeking Ways to Handle Mentally Ill By BRIAN NEARING "Jails have become by default the new psychiatric hospitals ... For example, the Los Angeles County Jail system, which on any given day can have up to 1,500 mentally ill inmates, is now effectively the nation's largest mental hospital."
NAMI Launches National "I Vote, I Count" Campaign "People with mental illness are the last frontier of the civil rights
movement that has spanned much of this century"
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A Haze Lifts to
Reveal a New Day By WYNN ANNE SIBBALD "I stopped apologizing for my inability to forgive those who had abused me. I began to talk and to write about my experiences. And I accepted that, for now, I needed Zoloft as surely as any diabetic needed insulin."
A Mother's View By JOSEPH A.GLAZER, Esq "Most of the time, talking about him brings visible pain. She still can't understand what happened to her son, and hopes that her loss is not repeated for some other parent of a person living with schizophrenia."
Madman on the Car Hood By RON SCHRAIBER "I didn't have to be paranoid to know that bat was designed as a protective and aggressive instrument against me, the assumed wild man who would do God-knows-what."
Wonderland is Off the Air By LAURIE FLYNN "We have sent a powerful message ... We have raised the standard ... Stereotypes of people with mental illness no longer will be tolerated."
Ask the Doctor: Joining a Research Study By PETER WEIDEN, M.D. "I was asked to join a research study ... but the idea of research makes me very nervous. What should I do?"
Mentally Ill in Jails "Making discharged prisoners immediately eligible for Medicaid would be cheaper, more effective and more humane than waiting until they commit another crime and then returning them to jail."
Editor-at-Large: As I See It By MARVIN SPIELER "The police have always had special duty units ... why not an Emergency Service Unit for people in mental distress of one sort or another?" |
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