"... my sister took me to a local psychiatric hospital. Well, the doctor who interviewed me asked if I had been taking my medications. That was it. It hit me like a brick. All of a sudden, I accepted the fact that mental illness existed and, moreover, that I had it."

"Things might have been different had he only taken his medication. Would he have been an Ivy Leaguer mastering Chaucer with a pretty coed under each arm? Not likely. He'd probably be struggling with mental illness -- just like the rest of us."

The Mental Health Voter Empowerment Project

"What started as one man's way of overcoming the years he lost while living with schizophrenia is growing from a citywide and statewide effort into a nationwide drive to register, educate and get consumers of mental health services out to vote."

"... a line of credit on a card is neither income nor an asset, but a loan, and may not be used to reduce SSI benefits."

"Some of you may not know that the consumer movement began as the Mental Patients' Liberation Front, and early leaders like Howie the Harp modeled their actions after the black civil rights movement, and somewhat later, the women's liberation movement."

"With Medicaid and other insurance companies trying to force everyone into managed care companies, it is a good idea to discuss the differences in the many types of insurance policies available."