Acceptance is the answer. As someone who has been through his fair share of rehabs and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, that is an axiom that I am sure Charlie Sheen is well acquainted with and, based on his history of addiction… Read More ›
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Deinstitutionalizing Harry: How America Has Failed Its Severely & Persistently Mentally Ill
A couple of years ago, Mother Jones‘ Deanna Pan posted a great, although brief, timeline of deinstitutionalization in the United States’ mental health system, running from the 1st mental patient admitted to an asylum in the 18th century1 to the present… Read More ›
When ‘It Gets Better’ Isn’t Enough: Leelah Alcorn & The Struggles of Transgender Youth
Adolescence is a wretched place—a charnel house chock full of freshly formed skeletons waiting to be shoved into closets and strange erogenous urgings that spring up at the most inappropriate moments. It is a time of kinky little hairs that… Read More ›