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...could “turn myself in” as a Net addict. But some helpful pamphlets on time management aside, they didn’t have anything to tell me about my condition. My counselor apologetically suggested, “You could google it.” University Mental Health Services proved similarly forthcoming. I gave my number to someone rumored to be an expert on the subject, but he has yet to call...
...have AOL. Add to this the fact that ComputerAddiction.com hasn’t been updated since 2003—it doesn‘t even use frames—and it begins to look increasingly as though internet addiction is, for the most part, not a mental disorder but a generational issue. Professor Orzack herself was born in 1924. As experts tend to agree, the internet is not a substance so much as it is a medium—although it offers access to a world of harmful behaviors, the same could be said of the state of New Jersey...
When Congress approved the $700 billion rescue plan, it also passed one of the most significant mental-health bills in U.S. history - the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. It requires group insurance plans to cover mental illnesses the same way as physical ones (no more higher co-pays, deductibles and limits on hospital stays). For more than a decade, Senator Peter Domenici pioneered the fight for such legislation. Last year, the 76-year-old Republican announced he suffers from a degenerative brain disease and would not seek another term...
Even in America in 2008, there are more people who are housed in jails that have a mental illness than there are facilities with trained help that were built to take care of them. By virtue of the fact that nobody else is going to do it, most police departments know that they're going to have them in their custody so they now train police in how to deal with the mentally ill. But it's all makeshift compared with what was intended when the Kennedy commitment was made way back yonder when he said let's open...
...your major allies has been the advocacy group The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Tell me about how you first got involved with them. The Alliance has been the instrument of many, many good things. Our daughter was 17, going on 18, when she began showing symptoms of [schizophrenia]. We started stopping by their meetings after work and we quickly found out that, in spite of us having a child who had problems, there were so much more serious ones than ours. We ran into parents with two children who are schizophrenic, and they tried desperately to keep them...