 Source: LinkedIn.com To read the full article by NSSC Policy Director of North Carolina, Beth Wallace, follow this link.
From the article: "We don’t need more screening. We need systems that work. We need laws that allow earlier intervention. We need continuous care. We need to stop blaming the people our system has abandoned. Mental illness isn’t a character flaw—it’s a medical condition. And until we treat it like one, tragedies will keep happening while the public keeps asking the wrong questions."
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 NSSC member and mental health advocate Cohen Miles-Rath shares his story with AwareNow Magazine in the article found in the Justice Edition here. Miles-Rath bravely tells his story of psychosis and how it affected his life and family before getting treatment. Today he is a published author and social worker who is actively working to help others with serious mental illness.
 with members Eric Dias and AwareNow's Allié McGuire
In the latest edition of AwareNow Magazine, media specialist and mental health advocate Eric Dias is interviewed and discusses his work in mental health advocacy and the NSSC. Read the full article here.  by member Ingrid Silvian
Member Ingrid Silvian, tells her heartfelt story in AwareNow Magazine for the Beyond Stigma Campaign. To Keep My Daughter Safe is a mother’s journey through bipolar disorder and anosognosia and the need to accept it, no questions asked.  by member Yiacha Provencher
Member Yaicha Provencher bravely shares her story in collaboration with AwareNow Media. Losing Everything: A Family Man Loses His Mind & Everything Else highlights the failures of Maine’s leadership and the mental health system to educate families, clinicians, and law enforcement on the use of a Progressive Treatment Program (Maine’s version of AOT) for treatment of those too sick to seek treatment on their own. Sadly, their entire family was failed, leaving “scars, heartache, and trauma.”  by member and Arizona Mad Mom Christen White
Member and Arizona Mad Mom, Christen White, shares her son Matthew’s heartbreaking story, The Chance He Never Had. Matthew went from having a seamlessly normal life to one of chaos and loss when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. This story once again emphasizes the failures of our current system throughout the country in treating those living with a serious mental illness, a treatable neurological brain disease.  Source: LinkedIn.com To read the article LinkedIn published by NSSC member Darrell Herrmann, follow this link.
 by member Jason Jepson
'I Was Hazed in the Army for My Bizarre Behavior. Then I Got a Diagnosis' To read the article, follow this link to Newsweek's online article.   (SolStock/Getty) Article excerpt taken from WBUR.org On Point Website available here.
By NPR staff Jonathan Chang and Deborah Becker Several states have changed their policies in recent years to make involuntary commitment easier for people with severe mental illnesses. But forced treatment still raises civil rights questions, with some saying it can harm, not help patients. Today, On Point: The ethical dilemma of involuntary mental health treatment. Guests Will James, host of KUOW and The Seattle Times’ “Lost Patients” podcast. Dominic Sisti, associate professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Director of the Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care. Also Featured Laura Craciun, a mother who struggles with bipolar I disorder with psychotic features and anosognosia. Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu, founder and executive director of Project LETS. Transcript Part I DEBORAH BECKER: This is On Point. I’m Deborah Becker in for Meghna Chakrabarti. Understanding mental illness of a loved one often means looking back. JON CHANG: Tell me about Nick as a child. I mean, what was he like growing up? What kind of son was he? LAURA CRACIUN: Adorable. He looked like a little Ewok in a Star Wars film. And when he was younger, he would excel at any sport we introduced to him, including gymnastics and hip-hop dance, and was the best charades player I'd ever seen, and just so creative. BECKER: That’s Laura Craciun, an artist on Cape Cod, speaking with On Point producer Jonathan Chang about her son Nick. We should note this story contains descriptions of violence. Nick was an athlete with a big heart, Laura says. … But there was something else that clouded over his childhood. CRACIUN: The thing that plagued him most of his life, really, was that he could hear and see things that weren't real. And that started very early on in diapers. We would see him sometimes leave the house, saying there was something in it, and he didn't feel safe. And he also had anxiety that we were going to die... To continue reading, follow this link to the NPR interview here. |
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