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Media Advisory: Disability Rights Advocates Oppose NY Assisted …
[Editor's Note: This Media Advisory was issued January 11, 2016 in anticipation of lobby activity scheduled by assisted suicide proponents in Albany, NY for January 12th. Center for Disability Rights advocates distributed …
When Your Roommate Has Bipolar Disorder | Relationships and …
Those effects can be felt more acutely by those who live with someone suffering with a mental illness. When your roommate has bipolar disorder — or any other mental illness — they may unwittingly be responsible for taking …
Killer
Whenever there’s a mass shooting, people who support gun rights start lining up around the block to call for better mental health care. They’re implying, quite disingenuously, that people with mental illness are responsible for most killing sprees. It’s a lie and they know it’s a lie. Watch John Oli …
We need to talk about PTSD | openDemocracy
An injury can occur in the brain when we are unable to do something to protect either ourselves or another during a traumatic event: 'helpless' and 'hopeless' are the two components of both PTSD and suicide. We now know …