 | Food
for thought: if the world consisted of 100 people this is what
it would be. |
| Dear
Son - poem from Joy to her son at Atascadero State
Hospital. |
| A
father's experience of losing his son from the medication
Ritalin caused him to get to the bottom of it, and now
he is trying to help other families in similar situations. |
| Three
Oregonians who have manic depressive illness find that
dedicated therapists and proper medications are the
key. |
| Pat
Deegan, Ph.D., speaks from the depths of her soul, revealing how the mental
health system has so often impeded patients' road to recovery, and how we can do
better. |
| David
tells his story of struggles with dual diagnosis, schizophrenia and
bipolar. |
| One
family's story of how they tried to care for their son who was
diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the difficulties of dealing with the
system. |
| Shawn
describes his struggles with schizophrenia and gradual progress in
learning to manage it. |
| Learning
from a troubled genius - one person's experience meeting John Nash,
the nobel prize winning schizophrenic - his story is told in the recent
movie and book "A Beautiful Mind". |
| Joy
continues to tell the heart rending story of her son's life as an
institutionalized mental health client. |
| A
father struggles to make sense of the his son's agonizing struggle
with schizophrenia. |
| I
stumbled on an old Hallmark greeting card the other day...
submission by Kevin Gourley. |
| The
Dragoon - submission by Tom Barresi |
| We do not stop
playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. -
Delightful story which has been circulating around the internet. |
| Branded -
new Fresh Air submission from Nickolas. |
| First issue of The Radical Quill
A Journal by Irene Lynch, who created the
ALEPPOS Foundation. |
| How
many of you have heard of People First Language - by Diana Kern. |
| A mother's
story of her son's schizophrenia, and the support she received from
NAMI and the NAMI-SCC newsletter. |
| A young
student's focus and direction in life is crystallized by her
brother's diagnosis with mental illness. |
| A story of
one parent's struggle to find the real cause of her daughter's
problems. |
| Cloak of
Love, a story by Ardath Rodale, and submitted to Fresh Air by
Joy. Note: She found this when she flipped her Bible open to Luke 10:30
to 37. |
| Tom Barresi
writes to President Clinton, relating this story of Francis Farmer. |
| Client Poetry
and Artwork on
display from the Santa Cruz Mental Health Client Action Network.
Check this out, wonderful contributions... |
| I, quite
naturally started falling in love with the mentally ill, in mental
hospitals. Having never seen such a disheveled collection of characters
before, I approached them all as I would a Charles Dickens, (a notable
bipolar) novel; and wanted to read each and everyone of them. |
| Freedom
from Labels by John Laue. |
| Two
of my all-time favorite Bipolars - Tom Barresi's new submission to
Fresh Air, inspired by Robert Fieve's book, Mood Swing
. |
| Here
is an inspiring quote from Helen Keller on the subject of not giving
up, but striving on to overcome obstacles and get success. |
| As
I near my Journey's end - poem by a former client and client aide in
the mental health system. Bob S now is in hospice care for
terminal cancer. He is taking in orphan greyhounds and training
them so they can go to new homes. |
| My
Neighbor Came
- A Mother shares her son's mental illness, by Joy
|
