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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...
...Bottom line: you can't get out of either one of them alone. You absolutely need help. In the same way that slavery had absolute control over human beings, mental illness has absolute control over human beings, and in fact, turns many people into completely different people...
...have a sense of how frequently mental illness is as severe as Trina...
...Bipolar disorder exists in a little more than 1.5% of the population - several million people. The latest research says that mental illness is increasing. Depression and anxiety disorders happen more frequently than do disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. One out of four families will face mental illness in their lifetime. These diseases cannot be cured at this point, but they can be controlled with a combination of therapy, sometimes medication. Certainly having a good diet, basic and proper nutrition is helpful. Also, in many cases, designing your life so that it is as stress-free as possible...
...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...