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 …
Category Archives: Poverty
Mental illness and homelessness – fiscal myopia strikes again | Bill …
The mentally ill fall into this category. Most of us are ill equipped to handle a fellow citizen in deep mental crisis shaking and frothing in front of us. It is an incredibly confronting situation that makes most of us deeply …
Forensic Psychiatric Patients Don't Blame Mental Illness for Crimes …
Offenders sentenced to forensic psychiatric care do not consider their mental illness to be the main reason for their crimes. Instead, they point to abuse,
The schizophrenia of HRW's Kenneth Roth: Alloush both good and …
Can someone explain the logic or thought behind these tweets of Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth? Killing Zahran Alloush is part of Assad strategy of trying to reduce choice to him or ISIS. https://t.co/wCEebwblWy.
Untreated Mental Illness | Psychology Today
Though mental illness remains heavily stigmatized, with politicians blaming everything from poverty to crime on mental health issues, mental illness is common. About a quarter of the population will face a mental health issue …