Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longshoreman's crew that cleans up oil spills, and served for a year as president of his union local. He commutes to work from a new apartment, where he lives with his wife and four-year-old daughter. Frazier owes his stunning turnaround to medication that has brought his mental illness under control, but also to an underutilized treatment known as psychosocial rehabilitation. This approach aims to remedy what many see as a great failing of America's treatment of the mentally ill--once they are stabilized with drugs and released from the hospital, they are too often left...
Awakenings, with 12 chapters in the New York City area, is a program aimed at "robust responders"--medical jargon for high-functioning individuals. Founder Ken Steele, who for 32 years wandered across America homeless and schizophrenic, feels that the most formidable task for the mentally ill is overcoming the social stigma. "The public's synonym for us is still psycho," he says. "We are feared and misunderstood." Partly to counter this, individuals with mental illness call themselves "consumers"--an emotionally neutral word meant to suggest people who consume medications and services associated with psychiatric disability. A voting effort, for example...
There are still hurdles. Traditional mental-health professionals are more focused today on drug therapies than on social rehabilitation. Ruth Hughes argues that the profession's "belief system" still contains "the idea that people with schizophrenia never get better." Insurance companies have been slow to be convinced that these programs work and will ultimately save money. And many employers still resist hiring the mentally ill. American Postcard's Castaldo recalls telling a fellow businessman "how well I'm doing with handicapped people." The man was interested, Castaldo relates, "but when I mentioned mental health, a wall came down...
...conversation subsides while a contestant from Chicago attempts to answer a question worth $64,000. The tension mounts while the man searches in his mental databank for the rapper who sang "Cop Killa...
...last year's numbers were too much for Murphy to ignore. Linden threw eight interceptions and only three touchdowns while leading Harvard to a disappointing 4-6 (3-4 Ivy) finish. Wilford played well in spring ball, and finally displayed some of the focus and mental toughness that had set him apart from Linden all those years...