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...Bebe Moore Campbell: I have a mentally ill family member. So I've been coping with my loved one's disease, which is bipolar disorder, for about nine years. That really opened the door for my learning about mental illness, about 72-hour holds, about mania and episodes, and everything that I touch upon in the book...
...founder of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill-Inglewood (California). NAMI is a 27-year-old advocacy organization for mentally ill people and their family members. Our chapter is kind of the new kid on the block. In that capacity, I work as a facilitator with the support group, and I hear a lot of stories. We teach a 12-week course on the major brain diseases. I trained for that. So I've learned about this just through my own means, but NAMI has played a critical role in increasing my education...
...think that the word crazy brings all kinds of connotations to people. We feel that the mentally ill are violent, and some of them are when they're not in treatment. However, mentally ill people are more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators of violence. The other myth is that somehow, this is a by-product of bad parenting. The research shows is that mental illness has a genetic component. So it's more a DNA thing than a parenting thing, although there are environmental factors and triggers, and stress triggers and trauma triggers and drug...
Besides the OMB, which was rewarded for an initiative that scrutinizes federal programs, the honored organizations included a Washington public boarding school, the nation’s first; a Pennsylvania program helping mentally ill inmates transition to life after prison; a youth program in Virginia; an initiative in Iowa that minimizes bureaucracy for state agencies; and a building inspection program in Los Angeles...
...gesture probably intended to mollify a press that had been portraying him as an unrelenting hard-liner, the newly chosen Benedict invited journalists as guests to his first public appearance in the Vatican's Paolo VI auditorium on April 23. But he was ill at ease, and the ever vigilant Italian scribes noted that the hemline of his robes was cut far too high, offering an unusually revealing look at his ruby papal slippers. It was the kind of gaffe his predecessor, as a former actor, would have been unlikely to commit...