Middle of Nowhere, North Georgia ain’t a bad place to be on a Monday night for an itinerant traveler. Provided you’re near a highway, there’s nothing you’re going to want for that you couldn’t stand to go a night without…. Read More ›
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There Are Such Unfortunates: Failing To Deal With Severe Mental Illness in Recovery
How the hell did I get here is a question that comes about with a fair amount of frequency in the course of an alcoholic or addicted life. Wind up waking up next to someone you’ve never seen before in… Read More ›
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 ›
Reasonable Accommodation: The Supreme Court Case That Will Decide Whether Or Not Mentally Ill Lives Matter
There are no surer guarantors of the extraordinary than a story which is prefaced by a explanation of how ordinary things had seemed in its beginning. Ask survivors of the attacks on the World Trade Center or Pearl Harbor to… Read More ›
Constitutionally Incapable: Brief Reflections On My Time Living With an Autistic Alcoholic
In March of 2009, I went to the Hazelden Center For Youth & Families in Plymouth, MN to receive dual diagnosis treatment for alcoholism/addiction and bipolar disorder. Thankfully, both my addiction and mental health have been in check over the… Read More ›
What We Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health: The NYPD Shooting & Mental Illness in America
This past summer, I was being a good twenty-something and flossing my teeth with one of those tiny flosser-thingies with the handle on them when the floss caught itself in a little gap between one of my molars and the… Read More ›
To Commit or Not to Commit
Freedom is a funny thing. In On Liberty, John Stuart Mill wrote, “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 