Evans: Crazy Choices on Mental Illness

Evans: Crazy choices on mental illness
Filed under: dual diagnosis bipolar disorder

In the state of Colorado, people with severe bipolar disorder, major depression or schizophrenia are four times more likely to end up in jail than in treatment. Police officers see more people with mental illness on a day-to-day basis … Chipping away …
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No Place Like Home
Filed under: dual diagnosis bipolar disorder

Shore was like so many other parents whose children are diagnosed as teenagers or young adults with a severe mental illness, like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: Grieving the sudden and very unexpected “loss” of the child they knew for one who is …
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