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***The offer still stands, if I was in charge of the FBI, there would be 
no mental illness in the United States within 30 days.***
(FBI director Robert Mueller in this YouTube Video 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJ2Hsq6HaM>)

[For what I do, I suppose I maybe in some people's "kill" list for 
wanting to destroy the mental illness scam which has a large group of 
people (dangerous people) who benefit greatly from it, but do remember I 
offer a solution that works for those with mental illness]
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[1] Mentally ill flood ER as states cut services -When I offer to end 
mental illness?

CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - On a recent shift at a Chicago emergency 
department, Dr. William Sullivan treated a newly homeless patient who 
was threatening to kill himself.

"He had been homeless for about two weeks. He hadn't showered or eaten a 
lot. He asked if we had a meal tray," said Sullivan, a physician at the 
University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago and a past president of 
the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians.

Sullivan said the man kept repeating that he wanted to kill himself. "It 
seemed almost as if he was interested in being admitted."

Across the country, doctors like Sullivan are facing a spike in 
psychiatric emergencies - attempted suicide, severe depression, 
psychosis - as states slash mental health services and the country's 
worst economic crisis since the Great Depression takes its toll.

This trend is taxing emergency rooms already overburdened by uninsured 
patients who wait until ailments become acute before seeking treatment.

"These are people without a previous psychiatric history who are coming 
in and telling us they've lost their jobs, they've lost sometimes their 
homes, they can't provide for their families, and they are becoming 
severely depressed," said Dr. Felicia Smith, director of the acute 
psychiatric service at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Increased demand in mental health services

Full Article 
<http://news.yahoo.com/mentally-ill-flood-er-states-cut-services-131133880.html>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/mentally-ill-flood-er-states-cut-services-131133880.html
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[2] Even Today, the Stigma of Mental Illness Won't Fade -When I offer to 
end mental illness?

HURSDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- People with a mental illness 
struggle with symptoms ranging from crushing depression and crippling 
anxiety to powerful delusions and hallucinations that force them to 
actively sort out the real from the imagined.

And if that weren't enough, they also have to deal with the way the rest 
of the world perceives their inner struggle.

Stigma associated with mental illness remains widespread in U.S. 
society, despite some progress made in demystifying these medical 
conditions, said Michael J. Fitzpatrick, executive director of the 
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

"It's pervasive, but it's nuanced, too," Fitzpatrick said. "Most 
Americans understand that mental illnesses are treatable illnesses. I 
think people basically understand depression. Depression is talked about 
in the media and is considered a treatable disease. But when you reach 
psychosis and schizophrenia, there's still a lot of misunderstanding and 
fear."

Full Article 
<http://news.yahoo.com/even-today-stigma-mental-illness-wont-fade-170406384.html>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/even-today-stigma-mental-illness-wont-fade.html
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[3] Brain analysis can help predict psychosis: study -When I offer to 
end mental illness?

LONDON — Computer analysis of brain scans could help predict how serious 
or long term a psychotic patient's illness may become and help doctors 
make more accurate decisions about how best to treat them, researchers 
said on Monday.

In a study in the journal Psychological Medicine, scientists from King's 
College London's Institute of Psychiatry and University College London's 
computer science department found that using computer algorithms to 
analyze MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) brain scans can predict a 
patient's outcome.

Full Article 
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45192653/ns/health-mental_health/#.Tv6qlfmO3WA>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/Brain-analysis-can-help-predict-psychosis-study.html
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[4] Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care-When I offer 
to end mental illness?

By BENEDICT CAREY

Foster children are being prescribed cocktails of powerful antipsychosis 
drugs just as frequently as some of the most mentally disabled 
youngsters on Medicaid, a new study suggests.

The report, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, is the first to 
investigate how often youngsters in foster care are given two 
antipsychotic drugs at once, the authors said. The drugs include 
Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa — among other so-called major 
tranquilizers — which were developed for schizophrenia but are now used 
as all-purpose drugs for almost any psychiatric symptoms.

Full Article 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/health/research/study-finds-foster-children-often-given-antipsychosis-drugs.html>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/Drugs-Used-for-Psychotics-Go-to-Youths-in-Foster-Care.html
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[5] More U.S. kids in hospital for mental illness -When I offer to end 
mental illness?

NEW YORK — American kids are increasingly likely to be admitted to the 
hospital for mental problems, although rates of non-psychiatric 
hospitalizations have remained flat, a new study shows.

 From 1996 to 2007, the rate of psychiatric hospital discharges rose by 
more than 80 percent for 5-13-year-olds and by 42 percent for older teens.

"This occurs despite numerous efforts to make outpatient services for 
the more vulnerable kids more widely available," said Joseph C. Blader 
of Stony Brook State University of New York, whose findings appear in 
the Archives of General Psychiatry.

He said hospitalization is the last resort, because it's so disruptive 
for normal life.

"It's a pretty traumatic thing for a family when your child is admitted 
to a psych unit," he told Reuters Health.

Overall, short-term hospital admissions for mental illness rose from 156 
to 283 per 100,000 children per year over the ten-year study period, 
based on data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey.

Full Article <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44010025/ns/health-mental_health/>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/More-US-kids-in-hospital-for-mental-illness.html
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[6] Head trauma may boost schizophrenia risk -When I offer to end mental 
illness?

By Rachael Rettner
Head trauma may increase the risk of developing schizophrenia, a new 
study says.

The results show people who have suffered from a traumatic brain injury 
(TBI) are 1.6 times more likely to develop schizophrenia compared with 
those who have not suffered such an injury.

The risk was particularly high in those with a family history of 
schizophrenia.

Previous studies regarding TBI and schizophrenia have yielded mixed 
results as to whether the conditions are linked. The new study is one of 
the first to pool information from past research in a systematic way to 
get an indication of the risk.

While the new findings suggest the link does exist, they don't prove 
that brain injuries cause schizophrenia. And it could be that patients 
were already developing the psychiatric condition when their injury 
occurred, the researchers said. More work needs to be done to find 
exactly what's behind this relationship, they said.

Full Article <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44202899/ns/health-mental_health/>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/Head-trauma-may-boost-schizophrenia-risk.html
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[7] Brain memory region finding could help schizophrenia study-When I 
offer to end mental illness?

By Rajan
Some people have a superior memory of veracity than other because of a 
variation in the particular region of the brain. The study of those 
regions could improve the understanding of brain disorders such as 
schizophrenia, say researchers. Schizophrenia is a severe mental 
disorder which affects twenty-four million people globally, shows 
statistics of the World Health Organization.

Up till now comparatively little is known about causes of the disease. 
For their study researchers from Cambridge University tested fifty-three 
study participants. The study participants first had brain scans which 
showed if they had either a clear presence or absence of PCS in the left 
or right part of the brain.

Then study participants were shown the well-known word pairs such as 
Laurel and Hardy, which were sometimes complete and sometimes had the 
second word blanked out. The study subjects were then asked to remember 
whether they had seen a completed pair, or whether they had completed 
the pair in their own mind.

Full Article 
<http://www.thehealthage.com/2011/10/brain-memory-region-finding-could-help-schizophrenia-study/>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/Brain-memory-region-finding-could-help-schizophrenia-study.html
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[8] Bill for Mental-Health Beds Garners Bipartisan Support-When I offer 
to end mental illness?

by SCOTT McCAFFREY, Staff Writer
The General Assembly session hadn’t even begun, and strange bedfellows 
already are cropping up.

Example 1: The political odd couple of incoming state Senate members 
Barbara Favola and Dick Black, who are teaming up on legislation to 
restore funding for additional beds to serve those with mental illness 
in Northern Virginia.

“These beds are critical,† said Favola, whose position on the left side 
of the political spectrum is far removed from Black’s right-leaning 
political philosophy.

In November, Democrat Favola was elected to represent a district 
stretching from Arlington up the Potomac River through parts of Fairfax 
County and into Loudoun County. Republican Black was elected to 
represent swaths of Loudoun and Prince William counties. Their districts 
each include portions of Loudoun, but that’s where the similarities end.

Favola was asked to patron the legislation by the region’s Community 
Services Boards, and when she asked those organizations to find her 
supporters in the legislature, Black’s name cropped up. Part of the 
reason: Loudoun County is among jurisdictions where there are more 
people who need government mental-health services than there are spaces 
available, and many of those clients find themselves sent downstate, 
where beds are available.

Full Article 
<http://www.sungazette.net/arlington/news/bill-for-mental-health-beds-garners-bipartisan-support/article_7d1bc3a4-36d1-11e1-a678-001871e3ce6c.html>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/Bill-for-Mental-Health-Beds-Garners-Bipartisan-Support.html
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[9] Woman killed by deputies in Rosemead had long history of mental 
illness -When I offer to end mental illness?

By Brian Day, Staff Writer
ROSEMEAD - A 40-year-old Rosemead woman fatally shot by a sheriff's 
deputy while allegedly attacking him with a hammer had a long history of 
mental illness, officials said Thursday.

Jazmyne Ha Eng died at the scene of Tuesday's 3:40 p.m. deputy-involved 
shooting at the Asian Pacific Family Center, 9353 Valley Blvd., Los 
Angeles County Department of Coroner's Chief of Operations Craig Harvey 
said. Sheriff's officials said she was a Rosemead resident.

Lt. Dave Dolson of the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau said Eng was known to 
the facility staff prior to Wednesday's incident.

"She had been a patient there suffering from a few maladies relating to 
mental illness," the lieutenant said. "She'd been dealing with her 
mental health for many years." He declined to give more details on her 
conditions.

Full Article <http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_19679896>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/Woman-killed-by-deputies-in-Rosemead-had-long-history-of-mental-illness.html
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[10] LA arson suspect was diagnosed with mental disorders, doctor says 
-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Stan Wilson and Alan Duke, CNN
Los Angeles (CNN) -- A medical doctor in Vancouver, British Columbia, 
said Thursday that California arson suspect Harry Burkhart suffered from 
severe mental illness in 2010, when she examined him as part of a team 
of doctors.

Dr. Blaga Stancheva, a family physician and specialist in obstetrics, 
said both Burkhart and his mother, Dorothee, were her patients in 
Vancouver while both were applying for refugee status in Canada.

"I was asked to diagnose and treat Harry to support a claim explaining 
why he was unable to show up in a small-claims court case," Stancheva 
told CNN in a phone interview. She declined to cite the case or 
Burkhart's role in it.

Stancheva said she and other doctors including a psychiatrist diagnosed 
Burkhart with "autism, severe anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder 
and depression." The diagnosis was spelled out in a letter she wrote for 
the small-claims court case, Stancheva said.

Stancheva, citing doctor-patient confidentiality, would not elaborate 
further, nor would she identify the psychiatrist involved in the diagnosis.

Full Article 
<http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/05/justice/california-arson/?hpt=us_c1>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/LA-arson-suspect-was-diagnosed-with-mental-disorders.html
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[11] Half of Americans have mental illness in lifetime-When I offer to 
end mental illness?

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Nearly half of all people in the 
United States will experience a mental illness during their lifetimes, 
but the stigma remains, researchers say.

However, a Web site, developed in collaboration among researchers at the 
University of Virginia, Harvard University and University of Washington, 
allows visitors to examine and gain insight into their associations 
about mental health topics that may exist outside their conscious 
awareness or conscious control.

Visitors at the Web site Project Implicit Mental Health can discover 
their automatic associations relating to anxiety, depression, alcohol, 
eating disorders and persons with mental illness, using tasks such as 
the Implicit Association Test.

Full Article 
<http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/12/18/Half-of-Americans-have-mental-illness-in-lifetime/UPI-86341324248960/>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/Half-of-Americans-have-mental-illness-in-lifetime.html
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[12] State agrees to spend $5.6M a year help mentally ill inmates-When I 
offer to end mental illness?

By Matt Murphy/State House News Service
A settlement between the state and the Disability Law Center that has 
resolved a federal lawsuit is expected to cost the Department of 
Correction $5.6 million a year to improve its treatment of prisoners 
with severe mental illness and at a higher risk of suicide.

The lawsuit brought by the Disability Law Center against the Department 
of Correction in March 2007 alleged cruel and unusual punishment against 
inmates with mental illness stemming from the practice of placing 
problem prisoners in isolation units.

Filed just after Gov. Deval Patrick came into office and naming many 
Romney-era prison officials, the lawsuit contended that the conditions 
imposed by segregated confinement in Bay State prisons “exceed the limit 
of human endurance† for prisoners with severe mental illness.

Segregation, used as a punishment for prisoners who have violated prison 
rules, can in some cases include isolation and sensory deprivation, 
forcing prisoners to spend up to 23 hours a day in solid, concrete cells 
with only a narrow slot in the door through which meals are delivered, 
according to court documents.

Suicides in Massachusetts’ medium and maximum security prisons have been 
a persistent problem, with the suicide rate in Department of Correction 
facilities more than double the national average between 2007 and early 
2011, according to department documents.

Full Article 
<http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1481469235/State-agrees-to-spend-5-6M-a-year-help-mentally-ill-inmates>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/State-agrees-to-spend-help-mentally-ill-inmates.html
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[13] Deep Brain Stimulation for Mental Illness -When I offer to end 
mental illness?

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) may be useful for treating mentally ill 
patients who haven't responded to other therapies. DBS utilizes a 
pacemaker-type device that delivers small, steady electrical charges to 
brain circuits that control mood. Before treatment, surgeons implanted 
battery-powered electrodes in brains of patients. Researchers, reporting 
in Archives of General Psychiatry, found that after 24 weeks of 
treatment with DBS, 41 percent of patients had a positive response, and 
18 percent were in remission. After two years of treatment, 92 percent 
had a positive response, and 58 percent were in remission. The study 
included 10 patients with major depressive disorder and seven with 
bipolar II disorder. DBS is already used for movement disorders like 
Parkinson's disease and dystonia.

Full Article 
<http://calorielab.com/labnotes/20120102/deep-brain-stimulation-mental-illness-treatment-dbs/>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/Deep-Brain-Stimulation-for-Mental-Illness.html
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[14] How century-old brains in jars could help researchers treat mental 
illness-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Claire Bates
A museum housing 19th century brains may seem like a strange place to 
find a breakthrough, but one scientist says they could provide the key 
to new treatments for mental illness.

Dr George Sandusky, from Indiana University, has developed a technique 
to extract usable DNA from the collection of preserved brains despite 
their extreme age.
Dr George Sandusky with brain samples on display at the Indiana Medical 
History Museum. He has developed a technique that could help find 
'markers' to diagnose mental disorders in the future

Dr George Sandusky with brain samples on display at the Indiana Medical 
History Museum. He has developed a technique that could help find 
'markers' to diagnose mental disorders in the future

The brains came from patients who suffered from mental disorders who 
died at Central State Hospital - an asylum established in the mid-1800s.

Full Article 
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2084637/Century-old-brains-jars-help-researchers-treat-mental-illness.html>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/How-century-old-brains-in-jars-could-help-researchers-treat-mental-illness.html
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[15] Virginia is doing too little to address mental illness among 
prisoners-When I offer to end mental illness?

Mental illness among the incarcerated has not received the attention due 
such a grave social problem. Mental illness is two to four times higher 
among prisoners than it is in the general population. Solitary 
confinement exacerbates the problem, as noted in The Post’s article: 
Many experts argue it leads to higher suicide rates, increased 
depression, decreased brain function and hallucination.

In a study of more than 20,000 adults entering five local jails, 
researchers documented serious mental illness in 16.9 percent of those 
studied (14.5 percent of the men and 31 percent of the women). These 
rates are three to six times those found in the general population.

Full Article 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/virginia-is-doing-too-little-to-address-mental-illness-among-prisoners/2012/01/09/gIQAzc9mrP_story.html>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/virginia-is-doing-too-little-to-address-mental-illness-among-prisoners.html
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[16] Chicago, Big Ten universities commit to veterans’ mental 
health-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Marshall Cohen
Medical schools at five Chicago universities and almost all Big Ten 
institutions committed Wednesday to establish a "new generation" of 
health care for veterans as part of an initiative spearheaded by first 
lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden.

Local medical schools participating in the Joining Forces initiative 
include Midwestern University, Loyola University Chicago, Rush 
University, The Chicago Medical School and the University of Chicago, 
according to a White House news release issued Wednesday.

Additionally, medical schools at the University of Iowa, University of 
Illinois, University of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania State University, Ohio 
State University, University of Nebraska, University of Minnesota, 
University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Indiana University 
all committed to the program.

The medical school at Southern Illinois University in Springfield will 
also participate.

Full Article 
<http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/city/chicago-big-ten-universities-commit-to-veterans-mental-health-1.2684877#.Tw674mHLdAc>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/chicago-big-ten-universities-commit-to-veterans-mental-health.html
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[17] State convicts arrive in L.A. County with costly mental 
illnesses-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times
As California begins shifting supervision of thousands of newly released 
state prisoners to local probation agencies, ex-convicts are arriving 
with incomplete medical records and more serious mental illnesses than 
anticipated. And mental health officials are scrambling to provide 
appropriate — and often costly — treatment.

"At the start, every day ... there was a crisis," said Dr. Marvin 
Southard, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental 
Health. "There was somebody we didn't know what to do with."

In some cases, he said, released inmates have had to be immediately 
transferred to hospitals or residential centers for psychiatric care.

A new state law designed to reduce prison crowding and cut costs 
requires that certain nonviolent convicts serve their time in county 
lockups rather than state prisons. It also makes counties — rather than 
the state parole agency — responsible for supervising such inmates after 
their release.

Full Article 
<http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-prisoners-mentalhealth-20120109,0,4970554.story>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/la-me-prisoners-mentalhealth.html
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[18] America’s “Mental Health Gulag†-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Matthew T. Mangino
They say justice is blind. It must be to ignore the plight of the 
mentally ill in America’s prisons.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s recent two-part series on serious 
mental illness highlights the shortcoming inherent in a failed system. 
Wisconsin is far from the only state to push the mentally ill off on the 
criminal justice system.

An internal review of conditions inside a North Carolina prison, 
recently obtained by the Associated Press, found that inmates held in 
solitary confinement were often locked in cells for extended periods 
without being let out for meals, recreation time or even showers.

This past February, a North Carolina inmate being secured in solitary 
confinement had a doctor’s order requiring one hour of exercise per day 
in the prison’s day room. A review of prison records found that the 
inmate had not left his cell for 78 days consecutive days.

This is not an isolated case.

According to research published in the Harvard University Civil 
Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the mentally ill typically account 
for as much as one-half of the population in solitary confinement. In 
Wisconsin, a 2010 audit of three state prisons reported that “between 55 
percent and 76 percent of inmates in segregation [solitary confinement] 
are mentally ill,† according to a report published in The Crime Report.

Full Article 
<http://www.thecrimereport.org/archive/2012-01-americas-mental-health-gulag>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/americas-mental-health-gulag.html
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[19] An elusive childhood disorder: Linking strep to mental illness-When 
I offer to end mental illness?

DAVE NORDSTRAND
The most painful of journeys, that of a parent struggling to guide a 
seriously ill child back to health, began suddenly when William Van Nes, 
11, came down with a seemingly innocent cold.

"Runny nose, sore throat, light fever," said William's mother, 
Jacqueline Van Nes.

Nothing apparently unusual, said Van Nes, who, with her husband, 
Dominic, lives in the Salinas area.

"William was always in good health," Van Nes said. "He never had any 
medical issues."

Yet, within two or three weeks after his cold — that was in January 2011 
and William was 10 — he began displaying strange behaviors, behaviors 
that suggested sudden-onset mental illness brought on by a medical 
condition called "PANDAS."

PANDAS stands for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder 
associated with streptococcus.

It is thought to be caused by antibodies that go into action in the face 
of an infection, most often strep. Such antibodies normally battle the 
invaders.

Full Article 
<http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20120111/LIFESTYLE/201110303/An-elusive-childhood-disorder-Linking-strep-mental-illness>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/la-he-ocd-strep.html
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[20] A silent epidemic of mental illness-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Ron Thornburg Standard-Examiner
One year ago, our nation was shocked when a mentally ill young man 
opened fire as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with her constituents 
outside a grocery store in Tucson.

Six people were killed and Rep. Giffords was shot in the head.

The 23-year-old shooter has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and is 
being forcibly medicated in prison in an effort to make him mentally 
ready for trial.

Just days ago, residents of Northern Utah awoke to news of another 
tragedy. While attempting to serve a search warrant in Ogden, six 
policemen were shot, one fatally.

The father of the 37-year-old man arrested in connection with this 
carnage said his son may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

What has been called a "silent epidemic" of mental illness is sweeping 
the country as the United States struggles to pull itself out of the 
Great Recession of 2008. Sadly, Northern Utah is not immune from this 
epidemic.

Of course, only a small percentage of the mentally ill ever become 
violent. But the effects of untreated mental illnesses are devastating 
to individuals and their families just the same. Students are unable to 
learn and become frustrated and disruptive. Couples are torn apart and 
may resort to violence. Individuals are no longer able to hold down a job.

So as the Family Counseling Service prepares to celebrate its 46th year 
of service to Northern Utah, let me share with you some of my thoughts 
on the mental health of our community.

Full Article 
<http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/01/17/silent-epidemic-mental-illness>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/silent-epidemic-mental-illness.html
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[21] State’s new mental-health funding policy angers Franklin 
County-When I offer to end mental illness?

By  Alan Johnson
Ohio counties will have to work together to get $10.6 million for local 
mental-health services this year.

Ohio Mental Health Director Tracy J. Plouck’s collaboration strategy, 
which will kick in on July 1, is praised by many smaller and midsize 
counties, but it is panned by David A. Royer, head of the Alcohol, Drug 
and Mental Health Board of Franklin County.

“What concerns me about the new method is it still ignores the 
inequities of the old method,† Royer said.

He was considerably more blunt in a recent letter to the editor in The 
Dispatch. He called state policy “flawed,† “offensive† and “inexcusable† 
because it downplays “disparities and inequities for minorities and 
mental-health care.†

“The proposed policy is not innovative; it is highly regressive toward 
people with mental illness in our largest cities,† Royer wrote.

He is upset because Franklin County, which is Ohio’s second-largest 
county and home to the state’s largest city, might get nothing from the 
$59 million total earmarked for non-Medicaid funding for community 
mental-health services. Of that, $10.6 million is from Plouck’s new 
funding method, and $48.5 million is from the older county-by-county 
funding system.

Full Article 
<http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/01/16/states-new-mental-health-funding-policy-angers-county.html>
http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/Articles/states-new-mental-health-funding-policy-angers.html
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[22] Mentally ill suffer effects of government cutbacks-When I offer to 
end mental illness?

By CATHY RICHARDS
Because confusion has arisen lately regarding federal and state budget 
cuts and their effect on our ability to adequately care for the mentally 
ill, I thought I should clarify a few important issues. Many changes 
have been made during the past three years, and Missouri’s 2012 mental 
health budget calls for another funding cut of $21.2 million in services.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, has been specific in 
outlining how budget cuts in every state have affected the mentally ill 
during the past few years and how budget cuts will continue to affect 
the mentally ill in the future. Without rehashing the numerical data and 
the dire prophesies about what might occur in Missouri if these trends 
continue, I’ll point out a few of the most disturbing trends in Boone 
County during my first term.

The University of Missouri took over what used to be the Mid-Missouri 
Mental Health Center. It is now called the Missouri Psychiatric Center, 
or MUPC, and focuses primarily on stabilization and short-term care. 
Because many of the mentally ill wards my office serves suffer severe 
ongoing problems, when emergencies arise, acute care is rarely an 
acceptable or viable option.

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[23] Judge commits teen in Waukesha County ax killing-When I offer to 
end mental illness?

Waukesha - A Fox Point teen who killed his grandfather with an ax in May 
pleaded guilty Thursday but was found not mentally responsible for the 
crime and committed to state treatment for life.

Richard B. Wilson, 17, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia last year, 
but he didn't always take his medications. Two psychiatrists who 
examined him recently concluded that at the time of the killing, Wilson 
was suffering a mental condition that prevented him from appreciating 
the wrongfulness of his conduct, or conforming his actions to the law.

Waukesha County Circuit Judge William Domina relied on and adopted the 
reports and the agreement of both the prosecutor and Wilson's attorney, 
in finding Wilson not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.

Thursday's disposition of the case came as a bit of a surprise; the 
hearing had been scheduled only for a return of the doctors' reports.

But attorney Michael Steinle said he and District Attorney Brad Schimel 
had been discussing the possible outcome for weeks and were prepared to 
go forward, and Domina said he believed it might help the family to get 
the matter settled before the holidays.

Wilson appeared handcuffed and shackled in orange jail clothing, and 
looked out at his family gathered in the courtroom but did not seem to 
communicate. He did not look back at family members during or after the 
hearing.

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[24] ECT and psychosurgery reflect ignorance in psychiatry today-When I 
offer to end mental illness?

Harold Mandel
The use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) therapy for mental illness is 
very controversial because of consideraitons of its effectiveness vs. 
the side effects. There are concerns about permanent memory loss and 
confusion related to ECT treatment. Mental Health America reports that 
ECT is nevertheless administered to an estimated 100,000 people a year, 
primarily in general hospital psychiatric units and in psychiatric 
hospitals.

And a majority of people think psychosurgery, or lobotomy, is not done 
anymore. Unfortunately, this is not at all true. In fact as pointed out 
by Lawrence Stevens, JD in a commentary, "The Brain-Butchery Called, 
Psychosurgery", New York University School of Medicine psychiatry 
professors Harold I. Kaplan and Benjamin J. Sadock say in their textbook 
Clinical Psychiatry, published in 1988, "interest in psychosurgical 
approaches to psychiatric disorders has only recently been rekindled." 
It is Stevens assessment that "just as bloodletting said something about 
incorrect theory and the state of ignorance in health care in the past, 
brain damaging "therapies" such as "psychosurgery", electroshock, and 
psychiatric drugs reveal much about incorrect theory and ignorance in 
psychiatry today."

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[25] 1 in 5 Americans mentally ill in past year, study finds-When I 
offer to end mental illness?

One in five adults in the United States, or nearly 50 million people, 
suffered mental illnesses in the past year with women and young adults 
suffering disproportionately, a government report released on Thursday 
found.

The survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration found women were more likely than men (23 percent to 16.8 
percent) to have experienced a mental illness, while the rate of mental 
illness among people aged 18 to 25 was twice that of those aged 50 and 
older.

The administration defined mental illness among adults as diagnosable 
mental, behavioral or emotional disorders, excluding developmental 
disorders and substance use.

The survey found that 5 percent of American adults, or 11.4 million 
people, had suffered a serious mental illness in the past year that 
substantially interfered with their lives.

The report found that about 8.7 million American adults had serious 
thoughts of suicide in the past year, with 2.5 million making suicide 
plans and 1.1 million attempting to take their own lives.

Full Article 
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[26] Kadner: No state plan to treat mentally ill -When I offer to end 
mental illness?

Phil Kadner
Illinois is once again planning to close the Tinley Park Mental Health 
Center.

This is the hospital that treats severely mentally ill people who don’t 
have health insurance or Medicaid. We’re talking about people who are 
potentially dangerous to themselves and others.

And the state doesn’t have a plan in place to treat those people once 
Tinley Park is closed.

Mental health officials for Illinois say a plan will be in place by the 
time Tinley Park closes in early July.

During a telephone conference call with the SouthtownStar editorial 
board last week, state officials basically said, “Trust us.†

Actually, they said the mentally ill will be better served than ever 
because the state is going to invest in community treatment programs, 
which are now “the thing† when it comes to treating the mentally ill. 
Many experts believe they are far more effective than institutional 
settings.

But Illinois really isn’t going to be investing a lot of money in 
community treatment programs.

The state spends about $20 million a year to keep the Tinley Park Mental 
Health Center running. It plans on spending $9.8 million of that money 
to shift the responsibility to community-based programs.

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[27] MY TAKE — Meeting the challenge of mental illness -When I offer to 
end mental illness?

By Robin and Nathan Klay
Mental illness is responsible for more suffering than any other health 
problem in America. It accounts for about one-third of all disability. 
Over their lifetimes, one in four Americans can expect to experience a 
severe mental illness.

For Ottawa County, these statistics suggest that 44,000 people will 
experience major depressive disorder; 74,000 an anxiety disorder; and 
31,000 PTSD, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. The last figure is 
approximately equal to the entire population of the city of Holland, 
while the others are multiples thereof.

At the same time, mental illness is the most invisible of all illnesses. 
When was the last time your church organized meals for a family whose 
parent or child was hospitalized for mental illness? When, for that 
matter, did you ever hear a pastoral word or public prayers offered for 
members of the congregation and their families dealing with mental illness?

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[28] SAMHSA Statistics Ignore 500,000 Mentally Ill -When I offer to end 
mental illness?

DJ Jaffe
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency's most recent and 
widely-quoted report on the prevalence of 'any' mental illness and 
'serious' mental illness in America failed to count the 300,000 
individuals with serious mental illness in jails and prisons, the 200,00 
who are homeless and the 51,000 mentally ill who are in hospitals. 
Excluding these individuals led SAMHSA to understate the incidence of 
serious mental illness and overstate the percentage who receive treatment.

The new report acknowledges in the introduction and methodology sections 
that they ignored the incarcerated, institutionalized and homeless, but 
did not do so in their press release which is what most media apparently 
worked off of. Excluding these populations led to understating the 
number with serious mental illness, and since the chances of homeless or 
incarcerated receiving good treatment is next to nil, also understating 
the percentage who receive treatment.

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[29] State pays high price for incarcerating mentally ill -When I offer 
to end mental illness?

By Keith M. Phaneuf
Spurred by a new study showing the high costs of treating the mentally 
ill in prison, the Malloy administration is searching for ways to treat 
nonviolent offenders outside the prison system.

It costs Connecticut nearly double to both incarcerate and treat an 
offender with serious mental illnesses, compared with the price of 
treatment alone, according to a new academic study that analyzed social 
service and correction trends in 2006 and 2007.

The report, prepared by four academic institutions and the state 
Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, also found that 
nearly half of those with mental illnesses who were incarcerated or 
otherwise involved with the criminal justice system were arrested for 
minor, nonviolent offenses.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's criminal justice policy adviser said that by 
continuing to search for ways to treat nonviolent offenders with serious 
mental illnesses outside of the prison system, Connecticut can continue 
to reduce its correction budget.

"Many times these people will enter the system because we really don't 
have any other option," Michael P. Lawlor said, noting that the homeless 
and others struggling with poverty and mental illness don't receive any 
treatment until after they are convicted of a crime. "By default, the 
prison system becomes a new version of the state mental health hospitals."

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[30] L. A. County jailers more likely to use force on mentally ill 
inmates-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Jack Leonard and Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles County jailers are more likely to use force against mentally 
ill inmates than other prisoners, according to a new Sheriff's 
Department report that acknowledges the lockups need specially trained 
staff to reduce the violence.

Roughly a third of the 582 deputy use-of-force cases in the jail system 
last year involved inmates with mental health histories, according to an 
analysis released Tuesday. About 15% of the jail's 15,000 inmates are 
classified as mentally ill.

The numbers provide a more detailed picture of the confrontations 
between deputies and inmates, an issue that has sparked intense scrutiny 
over the last few months and prompted a heated debate Tuesday between 
Sheriff Lee Baca and some L.A. County supervisors.

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[31] Genes May Be Missing Link Between Creativity, Mental Illness-When I 
offer to end mental illness?

Joan Arehart-Treichel
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been linked with creativity. The 
relationship may occur because some of the genes that contribute to 
schizophrenia and bipolar disorder also contribute to creativity.
Since creative individuals and mentally ill individuals often view the 
world in unusual ways, it would probably not be surprising if the former 
and latter were often the same people.

Indeed, structured diagnostic interviews with eminent creative people, 
retrospective analyses of famous creative people from the past, 
anecdotal evidence, and some smaller studies have suggested that this 
might be the case (Psychiatric News, July 1, 2011).
Now a large Swedish population study strengthens the hypothesis as well. 
It found an increased likelihood for individuals with schizophrenia or 
bipolar disorder to work in a creative occupation compared with 
individuals who do not have these illnesses.

The lead investigator was Simon Kyaga, M.D., of the Department for 
Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institute in 
Stockholm. The results were published in the November 2011 British 
Journal of Psychiatry.

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[32] Mental health proves growing concern for college students-When I 
offer to end mental illness?

By RACHEL PERKINS
Recent studies from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention show 
suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, putting 
suicide rates at an all time high. One million people attempt suicide 
annually and every 14.2 minutes, someone in the United States dies by 
suicide.

In Mississippi, suicide is the third leading cause of death among young 
people between the ages of 10 and 24. The vast majority of people who 
take their own lives have a diagnosable and treatable mental illness. 
With the rate of suicide among college students rising each year, 
studies are now showing an increase in the numbers of diagnosed mental 
illnesses among young people in college.

According to the American Psychological Association, more young people 
are arriving on campuses with pre-existing conditions than they were 10 
years ago, and 1-in-4 college students is on psychiatric medication.

According to Camilla Williams, staff psychologist at Mississippi State 
University's Student Counseling Services, college is an especially 
vulnerable time for a young person's mental health.

"Students are facing everything from problems they've never faced 
before, and they're on their own for the first time. People 
underestimate the pressure on college students," Williams said. "Any 
time you have change, you're more susceptible to mental illness."

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[33] Virus Ruled Out as Cause of Mental Illness-When I offer to end 
mental illness?

By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Virus Ruled Out as Cause of Mental IllnessA viral disease long suspected 
of possibly causing mental illness has apparently been acquitted, as a 
blinded case-control study found no association between the Borna 
disease virus (BDV) and mental health disorders.

Prior studies have linked the virus to mental illnesses such as bipolar 
disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder and dementia. Investigators 
were open-minded to the possibility as genetic fragments and antibodies 
to this RNA virus causes behavior disorders in a range of mammals and birds.

Moreover, although the results have been inconclusive, traces of the 
virus have been found to be prevalent in psychiatric patients.

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[34] Does Borna disease virus cause mental illness?-When I offer to end 
mental illness?

Over the past 30 years, numerous studies have linked Borna disease virus 
(BDV) with mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, 
anxiety disorder, and dementia. Genetic fragments and antibodies to this 
RNA virus, which causes behavior disorders in a range of mammals and 
birds, have been found to be prevalent in psychiatric patients, but 
study results have been inconsistent. Now, the first blinded, 
case-control study to examine this issue finds no association between 
the virus and psychiatric illness. The study, conducted by researchers 
at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's 
Mailman School of Public Health and collaborators at seven other 
institutions in the U.S., Germany and Australia, can be found online at 
Molecular Psychiatry.

The scientists evaluated 198 patients in California with schizophrenia, 
bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, carefully matched each 
one of them with a healthy control of the same sex, age, region, and 
socio-economic status, and tested blood of patients and controls for the 
presence of BDV genetic material and antibodies to BDV.

Full Article 
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[35] Mentally ill need treatment, not jail-When I offer to end mental 
illness?

Christine Lee, 22News State House Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass. (WWLP) - Law enforcement officers say they’re trained to 
arrest, not handle people with mental illness.  They’re joining mental 
health advocates to say that needs to change, in lieu of the staggering 
number of people in jail suffering from mental illness.

“The incidence of people who are incarcerated who have mental illness is 
high enough that we know that there’s a significant problem,† said the 
Association for Behavioral Healthcare President Vicker DiGravio III.

According to the Massachusetts Sheriffs Association, 42 percent of 
inmates in the county jail system have a form of mental illness and 26 
percent have major mental illness.

“It’s really not the appropriate response for these folks,† said 
Framingham Deputy Police Chief Craig Davis.  “They don’t belong in a 
jail cell.  It’s just a waste of resources, there’s nothing that ever 
comes as a result of it.  The person isn’t offered any treatment.†

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[36] How PTSD took over America-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Alice Karekezi
In the past 30 years, post-traumatic stress disorder has gone from 
exotic rarity to omnipresent. Once chiefly applied to wartime veterans 
returning from combat, it is now a much more common diagnosis, still 
linked to traumatic events but now including those occurring outside the 
battle zone: the death of a loved one on a hospital bed, a car crash on 
the highway, an assault in the neighborhood park. Many would argue that 
this is a good thing: greater recognition of psychologically distressing 
events will lead to more people seeking treatment and a decrease in the 
preponderance of PTSD – a win-win.

Stephen Joseph disagrees. In his new book, “What Doesn’t Kill Us,† the 
professor of psychology, health and social care at the University of 
Nottingham (in the U.K.) warns that our culture’s acceptance of PTSD has 
become excessive and has led to an over-medicalization of experiences 
that should be considered part of ordinary, normal, human experience. 
This has kept us from proactively working through our grief and anxiety: 
We’ve become too quick to go to the shrink expecting him to fix us, 
rather than allowing ourselves the opportunity to grow and find new 
meaning in our lives as a result of painful, but common, events. Joseph 
advocates for a push toward post-traumatic growth as therapy to treat 
the stress of trauma, which he distinguishes as being different from the 
hokey, blue skies and rainbows, pop psychology that he claims has 
exploded in our culture in the past decade.

Joseph spoke to Salon over the phone to discuss our misunderstanding of 
the disorders, the meaning and usefulness of suffering, and if some 
cultures are more prone to PTSD than others.

Full Article 
<http://www.salon.com/2011/11/15/how_ptsd_took_over_america/singleton/>
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[37] Environment affects mental illness genes-When I offer to end mental 
illness?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Genes linked to schizophrenia and autism are 
members of a select club of genes regulated during environmentally 
sensitive times, U.S. researchers said.

Researchers at the National Institute of Health said a regulatory 
mechanism that turns genes on and off in the brain's executive hub are 
among the most environmentally responsive.

The mechanism, called DNA methylation -- a biochemical process that is 
important for normal development in higher organisms -- abruptly 
switches from off to on within the human brain's prefrontal cortex 
during this pivotal transition from fetal to post-natal life. As 
methylation increases, gene expression slows down after birth.

This mechanism leaves chemical instructions that tell genes what 
proteins to make -- what kind of tissue to produce or what functions to 
activate.

Full Article 
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[38] S.A. volunteers help study treatment for Hispanics with bipolar 
disorder-When I offer to end mental illness?

by Wendy Rigby / KENS 5
SAN ANTONIO -- Bipolar disorder is a highly disruptive mental illness 
that if left untreated often leads to suicide. Now, local patients are 
volunteering for a study to improve outcomes, particularly for Hispanics.
Teresea Wagner, 64, of San Antonio is doing well these days after she 
was formally diagnosed with bipolar disorder six years ago and treated. 
But before that?

“I was more on the manic side than the depressive side,† she noted. 
“Though when I was depressed, I was locked in a closet rocking on my knees.†

Wagner is not alone. Several million Americans suffer from bipolar 
disorder. Hispanics in particular often don’t seek treatment because of 
cultural stigma.

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[39] Wash. Lawmaker Pushes 'Evidence-Based' Treatments For Mentally Ill 
Youth-When I offer to end mental illness?

Austin Jenkins
OLYMPIA, Wash. – "Talk therapy" may work in some cases. But a Washington 
state lawmaker says it's time to invest in evidence-based programs to 
treat mentally ill youth. This past fall we brought you a series of 
stories on failures in how the Northwest treats young people with 
serious mental health issues.

State Representative Mary Lou Dickerson is blunt when it comes to how 
Washington treats kids with mental illness. "We are wasting a lot of 
money right now on ineffective programs," she says.

Dickerson specifically points to one-on-one counseling sessions known as 
"talk therapy." She says, instead, the state should spend its money on 
mental health programs that are proven to work. The term is 
"evidence-based." And make these programs available to kids before they 
end up in the juvenile justice system.

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[40] Mother Blames Cops For Son's Death; Police Say Victim Had 'Mental 
Illness' -When I offer to end mental illness?

By Sandy McGee
The mother of a 25-year-old Tiverton man, who died after an apparent 
struggle with Portsmouth police officers Friday, is now blaming police 
for her son's death.

Brenda Raposa of Portsmouth says authorities are at fault in the death 
of her son, Craig Raposa, reports The Newport Daily News.

She also told The Newport Daily News that her son was bipolar. A phone 
message left for Brenda Raposa was not returned Tuesday.

State Police are now investigating the incident and what led to Craig 
Raposa's death Friday. The Office of the State Medical Examiner is 
conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

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[41] Does Abortion in First Trimester Raise Risk of Mental Ills' 
Return?-When I offer to end mental illness?

MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Women with a history of mental 
illness do not seem to be at increased risk of readmission to a 
psychiatric hospital after having an abortion in their first trimester, 
a new study suggests.

The findings, which appear in the February issue of the Archives of 
General Psychiatry, support several previous studies showing that women 
who undergo abortion do not face a higher risk of mental health problems 
afterwards.

But anti-abortion advocates say the psychological risks of abortion are 
still not fully understood.

"The take-home message from our study is that having a first-time, 
first-trimester induced abortion does not influence readmission risk, 
since risk of readmission is similar before and after the abortion 
procedure," said study author Dr. Trine Munk-Olsen, an epidemiologist at 
Aarhus University in Denmark.

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[42] City leaders worried that mental health services may run out of 
cash-When I offer to end mental illness?

Meg Farris / Eyewitness News
NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans city leaders are concerned about what will 
happen with public safety if mental health and drug detoxification beds 
run out of funding.

So they've called an emergency meeting to figure out what to do.

The city is wasting no time to talk about how serious it will be if 
treatment of mental illness, including drug addiction, runs out of money.

"The mayor has sent a very strong letter to the state, to the governor, 
to LSU President Lombardi, indicating his extreme concern about how 
these cuts to mental health and substance abuse will impact public 
safety as well as people's lives," said New Orleans Health Commissioner 
Dr. Karen DeSalvo.

"I'm telling them we're having to do less with less. Crime is our number 
one priority. And I know a lot of people want to call in the National 
Guard, but it would be a lot better to fight crime to have more 
probation and parole officers, or fund the DA's office, or fund indigent 
defenders, which are all state responsibilities, and to make sure that 
we fund mental health," said Mayor Mitch Landrieu.

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[43] Mental illness: the trillion-dollar elephant in the workplace-When 
I offer to end mental illness?

By Kim Covert, Postmedia News
In a knowledge-based economy, brains matter and not taking care of our 
mental health has a negative impact on the bottom line, according to a 
recent report from the Global and Business Economic Roundtable on 
Addiction and Mental Health, a group of scientists, medical and business 
professionals established to raise awareness of the economic impact of 
mental illness.

Depression has a fairly high profile these days   you can see TV ads 
for pills to treat it; Olympic speed skater Clara Hughes has gone public 
about her experience with it. A viral video campaign, begun in response 
to the suicide of a depressed gay teenager, features celebrities 
reassuring depressed teens that things will get better. Recent reports 
from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and 
Toronto's Center for Addiction and Mental Health, among others, have 
drawn attention to the need to deal with it.

Full Article 
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[44] New mental disorders guide stirs debate-When I offer to end mental 
illness?

By Thane Burnett ,QMI Agency
You'll stand around the bar on Valentines Day, nursing a drink and 
speaking to no one but the waitress refilling your warm glass.

As if you don't already have enough on your mind, your painfully awkward 
shyness -- despite reports -- may not soon be labelled a mental disorder.

Experts are now in trial testing of the next version of the Manual of 
Mental Disorders, a new reference book shortened to DSM5.

And there are worries common quirks like shyness or children being 
stubborn with parents may suddenly come with a mental health warning.

As well, reportedly, newer habits, including Internet addiction, could 
find themselves among the treatable mental disorders listed in DSM5 when 
it's released next year.

Full Article 
<http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/10/new--mental-disorders-guide-stirs-debate>
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[45] Ex-marine took his life in mental illness battle-When I offer to 
end mental illness?

A FORMER Royal Marine who served in the Falklands and Northern Ireland 
took his own life after a prolonged battle with mental illness, an 
inquest heard.

Timothy Mark Waspe, of Coachmans Cottage, Thwaites, was found hanged in 
his workshop by his wife Macrina Waspe, on October 18.

His watch and glasses were found placed on a work bench before he took 
his own life.

His wife had arranged to do some cleaning for a friend and left Mr Waspe 
at home just after 11am.

When she later returned home she found him hanged at around 2pm.

Mrs Waspe said her husband had seemed particularly low that morning but 
had no reason to suspect he would take his own life.

Full Article 
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[46] Mentally ill residents sue state over lack of care-When I offer to 
end mental illness?

By GARRY RAYNO
CONCORD —Six individuals with serious mental illness believe they are 
needlessly being forced into New Hampshire Hospital and the Glencliff 
Home, when they should be receiving services in their communities.

The individuals, through the Disabilities Rights Center and other 
advocacy organizations, filed a class- action lawsuit Thursday in U.S. 
District Court in Concord Thursday claiming the state is violating the 
federal American with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act and the 
Nursing Home Reform Act by failing to provide community-based care.

The suit seeks to force the state to expand community-based services 
plaintiffs need to avoid future institutionalization.

Amy Messer, legal director for the Disabilities Rights Center said the 
individuals' lives have been interrupted, disrupted and even destroyed 
by their prolonged and needless stays at state institutions. “They share 
a common goal to be integrated into community life and not segregated 
from their peers,† she said at a press conference Thursday announcing 
the suit.

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[47] Eden Prairie dad who killed son says he's no danger-When I offer to 
end mental illness?

ABBY SIMONS , Star Tribune
Less than a year after he was deemed mentally ill when he drowned his 
infant son in a laundry tub, an Eden Prairie man testified Monday that 
he's not the same man who, in a fog of delusion, believed that he had no 
other option because he couldn't support the baby.

At a trial to determine whether he should be indefinitely committed as 
mentally ill and dangerous, Randel Richardson, 38, testified that 
intense therapy and medication have vastly improved his condition. "I 
feel good. I've been symptom-free for 18 months," said Richardson, whose 
wife testified that she supports him.

When his attorney, Chris Petros, asked what would happen if he didn't 
take his medication, Richardson was straightforward.

"I don't want to find out."

After a trial that will include medical records, testimony from 
Richardson, his wife, Karen, and psychiatrists, Judge Jay Quam will 
determine Richardson's future. The Hennepin County Attorney has 
requested that he be committed at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. 
Peter, Minn., indefinitely. Richardson's attorney contends he should be 
placed on a less restrictive six-month commitment elsewhere with likely 
extensions before he transitions back into society.

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[48] Ky. woman pleads guilty but mentally ill to killing expectant 
mother, removing baby from body-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Associated Press,
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — An infant born prematurely in a violent attack on 
his mother 10 months ago is learning to walk, beginning to talk and 
bears a bittersweet resemblance to the slain woman.

Friday was a sad but important date for the boy’s family: His mother’s 
killer pleaded guilty but mentally ill to cutting him from the womb and 
leaving the woman dead beside a rural road. Prosecutors say 21-year-old 
Jamie Stice was shocked with a stun gun before having her wrists and 
throat cut last April. Kathy Coy of Morgantown faces life in prison 
without parole at her sentencing March 1.

Before Friday’s hearing, the boy’s grandmother proudly showed off a 
photo of her chubby, smiling grandson atop his father’s shoulders. 
Isaiah Allen Stice Reynolds lives with his father and is said to be 
thriving despite being born about five weeks early.

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[49]  RI panel: mental health cases overburden ERs-When I offer to end 
mental illness?

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A task force in Rhode Island says the state must 
find an alternative to emergency rooms for people struggling with acute 
mental illness and substance abuse.

The Senate Commission on Emergency Department Diversion says mental 
health cases strain hospital resources, increase Medicaid costs for 
taxpayers and often leave patients without the care they need.

In its final report, the commission says the state should work with 
mental health facilities to ensure they can accept patients that 
otherwise would go to emergency rooms.

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[50]  Computer Program IDs Teens at Risk of Mental Illness-When I offer 
to end mental illness?

Computer programs may be able to identify teenagers most at risk of 
mental disorders such as anxiety and depression by analyzing brain 
scans, researchers say.

When it comes to mental illnesses, spotting those at high risk early in 
life is critical for treatment.

"Anxiety and mood disorders can have a devastating effect on the 
individuals concerned and on their families and friends," said 
researcher Mary Phillips at the University of Pittsburgh. "If we are 
able to identify those individuals at greatest risk early on, we can 
offer early and appropriate interventions to delay, or even prevent, 
onset of these terrible conditions."

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[51] Alabama Plans to Close Most Hospitals for Mentally Ill-When I offer 
to end mental illness?

By ROBBIE BROWN
ATLANTA — Alabama will shut down most of its mental health hospitals by 
the spring of 2013 in a sweeping plan to cut costs and change how the 
state’s psychiatric patients receive treatment, state officials 
announced on Wednesday.

The decision to close four hospitals and lay off 948 employees is a 
bleak reminder of Alabama’s shrinking budget. But it is also the latest 
example in a longstanding national effort among states to relocate 
mentally ill patients from government hospitals to small group homes and 
private hospitals.

Mental health advocates believe patients often get better care in 
smaller, less isolating facilities. Since the 1990s, Alabama has closed 
10 other mental health treatment centers.

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[52] Good Grief! Psychiatry’s Struggle to Define Mental Illness Goes 
Awry-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Maia Szalavitz
The editors of the forthcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and 
Statistical Manual — psychiatry’s diagnostic handbook — are having a 
hard time. They’ve been attacked by autism advocacy groups for proposing 
to eliminate the Asperger’s diagnosis. They’ve been slammed for adding a 
diagnosis, or “prediagnosis,† for people determined to be “at high risk† 
of developing schizophrenia. And, now, they’re being pummeled for 
introducing a provision to diagnose grief as depression.

It has not gone unnoticed that the illnesses for which proposed 
definitions have been expanded are mainly those that are treatable by 
drugs — antipsychotics or antidepressants, for which manufacturers seek 
increased marketing opportunities — while the contractions tend to be in 
conditions for which no specific medication is available.

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[53] Rural Health: S.D. volunteer group fights mental illness stigmas 
-When I offer to end mental illness?

By Barry Amundson
Community mental health centers dot South Dakota as well as surrounding 
states.

"They cover every inch of the state," said Phyllis Arends, executive 
director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of South Dakota.

The 11 state-run centers, a part of the rural health care system, 
provide case workers to help those suffering from brain disorders and 
are found in Aberdeen, Brookings, Huron, Lemmon, Mitchell, Pierre, Rapid 
City, Sioux Falls, Watertown, Winner and Yankton.

However, Arends and her small army of volunteers for NAMI, which she 
calls "South Dakota's Voice for Mental Illness," know there is a lot of 
work to do outside of the mental health centers to try to improve the 
lives of the mentally ill in the state.

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[54] MAINE COMPASS: People with mental illnesses risk losing parity they 
have attained -When I offer to end mental illness?

James H. Maier, M.D.
Some victories fought on behalf of patients with mental illnesses take 
years to win.

One cause for celebration has been the passage of a national "parity" 
bill to end discrimination in insurance policies, which offer far less 
adequate coverage for psychiatric illnesses than for other medical 
illnesses.

True parity should be a moral imperative guaranteeing equal insurance 
treatment for all illness at both state and national levels.

Many individuals and organizations, including the American Psychiatric 
Association and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, have worked 
for decades to end unfair treatment by health insurers.

People with psychiatric illness and their families are made to feel like 
second-class citizens who are being placed at greater risk for medical 
bankruptcy.

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[55] Antipsychotics death risk charted in dementia patients -When I 
offer to end mental illness?

By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News
Some antipsychotic medication may increase the risk of death in patients 
with dementia more than others, according to US research.

The drugs have a powerful sedative effect so are often used when 
dementia patients become aggressive or distressed.

A study, published on the BMJ website, argued that antipsychotics should 
not be used "in the absence of clear need".

Experts said better alternatives were needed to antipsychotics.

A study in 2009, suggested 180,000 people with dementia were taking 
antipsychotic medication in the UK and said the drugs resulted in 1,800 
additional deaths.

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[56] Euthanizing the Mentally Ill in the Netherlands -When I offer to 
end mental illness?

By Wesley J. Smith
The latest report from the Netherlands on euthanasia practice includes a 
case study of a woman killed by her psychiatrist solely due to mental 
illness, specifically, depression.  From the Regional Committees Annual 
Report 2010:

“More than four years before the patient died she was diagnosed with 
vital depression. Her medical history reveals recurring episodes of 
depression, which were difficult to treat, from 1980 onwards. Apart from 
a period of several months, she was in hospital from 2005 until she 
died. Since her depression failed to respond to the various treatments, 
a psychiatrist working at a teaching hospital was asked for a second 
opinion. He examined the patient himself, and on his advice she was 
given treatment based on anti-depressant medication, assistance in 
finding ways to keep her mind occupied during the day, assistance in 
keeping her as independent as possible and use of physiotherapy to 
improve her mobility.

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