Category: advocacy

  • Guest Post: “How The Crisis In Mental Health Care Came To Be” by John F Baggett

    Guest Post: “How The Crisis In Mental Health Care Came To Be” by John F Baggett

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    Katie

    Part II: Lessons From History – How the Crisis in Mental Health Care Came to Be By John F. Baggett Ph.D   In Part I of this three part series I described the current sad state of affairs in Mental Health Care. In this post, I will discuss how the…

  • Guest Post: "The Current Sad State of Affairs in Mental Health Care" By John F Baggett

    Guest Post: "The Current Sad State of Affairs in Mental Health Care" By John F Baggett

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    Katie

     A Call to Advocacy Part One of a Three Part Series On December 15, 2016, A Palm Beach Florida newspaper, The Sun Sentinel, printed a feature story titled, Dying for help: Families struggle with severely mentally ill relatives, then become victims of their violence. Florida’s health care system is too…

  • Joy To The Depressed

    Joy To The Depressed

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    Katie

    Are you or someone you know taking on a George Bailey mentality? Better that you’d never been born? “Joy to the World?” You scoff at the thought. I can’t find joy, it’s out of reach. Perhaps you are suffering, broken and feeling forgotten about. You aren’t looking for hope, you don’t…