Word: mentality
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...fact, McCain has spent the majority of his life living with the physical disabilities and the mental trauma he suffered as a young Navy pilot. When his plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967, McCain broke both his arms and his right leg at the knee. He was stabbed twice by a bayonet, had his shoulder smashed by a rifle butt and endured the angry kicks and punches of the mob that discovered him. Those injuries, along with the more calculated torture that followed during 5½ years of captivity, left him unable to raise either arm more than...
...threatening anorexia and bulimia (described in her best-selling book Wasted), self-mutilation, drugs, alcohol and numbing sex. With a proper diagnosis and treatment came self-knowledge and a remarkably stable life. Her new courageous book, Madness: A Bipolar Life (Houghton Mifflin) delves fearlessly into the experience of severe mental illness, in the tradition of An Unquiet Mind and The Center Cannot Hold. TIME reporter Andrea Sachs reached Hornbacher at her home in Minneapolis...
...yeah. (Laughs.) I absolutely would. I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance. With a mental illness, it's confusing. It's disorienting. It's profoundly psychologically affecting. It affects your identity. It affects your feeling about who you get to be in society, because there is an enormous stigma attached to it. I don't think anyone would choose to be associated with something that many people see as helpless, hopeless, freakish. However, the flip side of that is having this illness has really forced...
...longtime barrier to psychiatric care has been reluctance by insurance companies to consider mental illnesses on par with physical ones and thus not pay as well to treat them. Only 6.2% of current U.S. health care spending is devoted to the treatment of mental disorders. Federal lawmakers may soon change that. Following the lead of many states, the U.S. House of Representatives in March passed legislation that would require equal health insurance coverage for mental and physical illnesses, when policies offer coverage for both. "Mental illness and drug addiction are every bit as real and serious as physical illness," said...
...narrower version of the bill last September, and the two houses are currently working on a compromise to send to President Bush. Both the drug industry and large insurers have been vocally opposed, saying the legislation could result in higher premiums for customers. "[The bill] would offer more generous mental health benefits to Americans," said Sonya D. Sotak, director of federal affairs for drugmaker Eli Lilly, "but it risks doing so on the backs of the sickest and poorest Americans." Rep. John Sullivan, a Republican from Oklahoma, admitted the changes could adversely affect the pharmaceutical (a clause in the House...