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Mother's quest to find treatment for son highlights mental health system's limitations
When Chris Marciano was 4 years old, he would have a blistering tantrum whenever music came on the radio. By the second grade, his teacher described him as "not with us." At age 11, he was kicked out of school. "The pediatrician said he was just...
Tags: Trials, University of Chicago, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Theft, Schizophrenia
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Man who died in Hampton jail had severe mental illness, mother says
On April 29, Wanda Yvonne Parks buried her oldest son, Jason Daniel Tully, 25. Tully had struggled with mental illness since age 11, when he was first diagnosed with severe depression. He was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder and finally...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Mental Health, Depakote (drug), Hampton Roads, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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READER SUBMITTED: It's Time To Do The NAMIWalk!
HartfordNow more than ever is the time to stand up to the stigma of mental illness. In the wake of recent events, that stigma has once again reared its head. All of us who are living with a mental illness owe it to our friends, our families and ourselves to get...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Bushnell Park, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Another way on California's prisons
Gov. Jerry Brown has made it clear how unhappy he is about having to produce a plan to reduce the inmate population of California's prisons by another 9,000. Under the 2011 realignment law, the state has already lowered the prisoner count by 43,000 by...
Tags: Executive Branch, Behavioral Conditions, Regional Authority, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Environmental Issues
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Officials trying to stop cycle of repeat jail visits
Daily American Staff WriterIt is hard for inmates to break the cycle of crime — and returning to jail. Somerset County Jail Warden Greg Briggs said at the March jail board meeting that Somerset County has a 41 percent recidivism rate of inmates sent to state prison who...Tags: Trials, Behavioral Conditions, Court Preliminary, Substance Abuse, Somerset County (Pennsylvania)
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Mom of boy, 16, killed by cops: 'He was bipolar, depressed'
Tribune reportersRelatives say a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police after he allegedly fired at people on the street and then at pursuing officers suffered from a bipolar disorder. But they are still at a loss to explain what happened to their "playful,...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Entertainment, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, Depression, Garry McCarthy
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Deerfield man gets 47 years for killing girlfriend's mother
Special to the TribuneAfter multiple outbursts, including obscene remarks, Daniel Baker was escorted out of a Lake County courtroom Monday as a judge sentenced him to 47 years in prison in the beating death of his girlfriend's mother. Baker, 25, of Deerfield, was warned...Tags: Deerfield, Behavioral Conditions, Punishment, Murder, Mental Health
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Parkville man charged in fatal stabbing of mother, wounding of sister
The call came into the Baltimore County emergency dispatch center just after midnight. An unidentified woman asked police respond to a home in Parkville. She didn't say why. When officers arrived in the first minutes of Sunday, they found 26-year-old...
Tags: Trials, Parkville, Catonsville, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Prosecution
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Forum to focus on mental illness
Lois Knoke and Sandy Peterson, both of Huron, will be the featured speakers at "In Our Own Voice," a program focused on mental illness, 7 p.m. Thursday at Avera St. Luke's Education Center, 709 Sixth Ave. S.E. The presentation, free and open to the...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Health and Medical Professionals, Mental Health
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LETTER: Denial Of Mental Illness Not Neurological
I can reassure Drs. E. Fuller Torrey and Xavier Amador that I know of their theory linking anosognosia to schizophrenia [May 1, letter, "Neurological Basis For Denying Illness"; and May 3, letter, "Condition Obscures Mental Illness"]. Anosognosia is a...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Schizophrenia
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LETTER: Condition Obscures Mental Illness
Op-ed writer and psychiatry professor Larry Davidson writes that he is opposed to assisted outpatient treatment because he is not aware of data "that indicate that persons with psychotic disorders refuse treatment because they have a neurological...Tags: Symptoms, Behavioral Conditions, Schizophrenia
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Bulletin Board for May 5, 2013
Deadline for submitting information to the Bulletin Board is noon Thursday. There is no charge for this service. Items run as space permits. Mail information to The Advocate-Messenger, P.O. Box 149, Danville, Ky. 40423- fax to (859) 236-9566 or call 236-...
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