But long before she wrote about her own mental illness, Swados wrote about her brother's. In an excerpt from her memoir, The Four of Us: The Story of a Family, which appeared in The New York Times Magazine in August …
Month: January 2016
Pamela Geller: Charlie Hebdo's PTSD – Jihad Watch
In “Charlie Hebdo's PTSD” at Breitbart today, Pamela Geller discusses what went wrong with a magazine that was once a foremost defender of the freedom of speech: charlie hebdo post massacre74. In the wake of the jihad …
Eleven Disability Groups File Brief in New York Assisted Suicide Case
On January 6, Not Dead Yet and ten other national and New York state disability rights organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the New York Appellate Division in support of a lower court ruling dismissing a case …
What It's Like to Have Schizophrenia | Reader's Digest
Most days, this patient lives, works, and functions just as you do. But here is how schizophrenia affects his or her brain, thinking, and everyday life.
Does Mental Illness Cause Gun Violence? | Care2 Causes
When the nation's eyes turn to an outbreak of shocking violence, we are quick to characterize the episode in vague terms implicating mental illness as the culprit. We refer to “crazy” acts, “pure insanity” or “madmen.”.