Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ware is "transgendered," which means her mental gender--her deepest awareness of her identity--doesn't correspond to the parts she was born with. Though she has become an activist in the past year or so, Ware struggled with these feelings for years. Now, at 45, she is happy with her inner and outward selves, the latter feminized with hormones and women's clothes. Ware isn't yet "transsexual," but she does plan to undergo what doctors call "sex-reassignment surgery" when she and her beau David can afford it; it will cost about as much as their new Nissan...
Maryland Maryland has possibly the largest number of health-care mandates in the U.S.; among other things, they require state-based health plans to guarantee adequate hospital stays for new mothers and to cover mental health and substance-abuse care, as well as prostate diagnostic exams for men between the ages...
...taking a job as a salesclerk at Macy's incredibly busy store in New York City, his father immediately saw the dangers. Go to law school instead, his father advised him. The law school, Laudor told the New York Times in 1995, turned out to be "the most supportive mental-health-care facility that exists in America." The Times story, documenting Laudor's recovery from schizophrenia and his struggle to become a lawyer in a world prejudiced against mental illness, transformed his life. It led to a $600,000-plus advance from Scribner for writing his saga and $1.5 million...
...There is a notion in Judaism of tikkun olam," Laudor told the Times in 1995, "to heal the world." He felt it was his calling to redeem pariahs, to prove that those afflicted with mental illness could still serve. In the complicated psychochemistry of madness, his very determination may have led to his undoing...
Rumor: Giuliani is nuts. Fact: The mayor has never been declared psychotic by any reputable mental-health professional or committed to any institution for the criminally insane. Though some of his ruder detractors call him a bullying, paranoid "control freak," many experts believe that is the exact personality type required to run a city as rude as New York. Besides, the mayor does not call reporters and other enemies "jerky," "stupid," "silly" and "not really that intelligent" unless they actually are. He has correctly stated, "I pride myself in displaying good judgment about people...