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CINDY SOSTCHEN, Poetry Editor "This issue features two accomplished and talented ladies, whose evocative and heart-rending poems will leave you breathless."
Medicaid Buy-in Stalls With Promise of Later Action By DAVID KELLOGG "His comment has led to speculation that the Republican leadership will bring the Senate back to Albany closer to the November election, in order to more publicly link the passage of the bill to the U.S. Senate candidacy of Republican Rick Lazio." Also: How Have Other States Acted on the Medicaid Buy-in Option?
Tragedies Will Continue Without Action By KEN STEELE, Publisher "mental diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disease, major clinical depression and others are in fact physical, biochemical diseases"
Cruel Editorials, Columns & Politics By N. FAITHFUL "The norm is that -- contrary to what the Daily News would have you believe -- people who serve time in hospitals serve more time than what they would have served in prison."
Brooklyn Peer Advocacy Project By ISAAC BROWN "Over the past decade, consumers, families and professionals have worked very hard together to focus on employment as an essential right of every individual" Also: Isaac Brown's Story
Ask the Therapist By RITA SEIDEN, C.S.W., Ph.D "The other one drinks and sleeps a lot and ... gets very drunk and sometimes verbally abusive. What can we do?"
Annual "Voice" Awards NYC Voices readers are invited to nominate candidates in five advocacy achievement categories. |
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Mile Journey Earns Clifford W. Beers Award
By CYNTHIA WAINSCOTT "When I started coming back, about the one thing I could do was walk. I walked miles and miles every day, cutting a big field of grass, walking all over town." Also: Stuart Perry's Acceptance Speech, Voter Empowerment Training in Georgia
Singing the Praises of an Unsung Hero By JOSEPH A. GLAZER, Esq. "Senator Duane spoke in support of his motion, saying, 'This bill does not provide greater coverage for mental illnesses, it provides for equal treatment. For too long ... people who are seeking treatment for mental illness have had to live with stigmatization.'"
The Horrors of Confinement By ROSEMARY THOMAS "In 1988, I gave birth to a baby boy while I was an inpatient in Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center; I was 26 years old, the father, also a patient, was 53 years old. The hospital had me sign my baby over to State's Children's Services."
What Consumers Can Do By CINDY MAYHEW "in the face of oppression, communities have to strengthen the bonds amongst themselves to survive. This is the time to strengthen the bonds within the consumer community."
"Hospitals to Handcuffs" By DAVID KELLOGG "Judge Wachtler spoke of his personal experience as a person living with mental illness in federal prison. 'I tell you that if you're not mentally ill when you go in, you certainly will be shortly thereafter,' he said. 'The first thing they do is put you in solitary confinement'"
Ask the Pharmacist By STEVE KAUFMAN, RPH "My doctor said my child has attention deficit disorder (ADD). He wants to put my child on Ritalin. What do you think?" |
Special Section...
The Road Back By ROBERT KOWALSK "here is New York City, where nine million people live, work, and recover one day at a time."
My Life with Mental Illness By AMY BOGNER "Mental illness is something that I deal with every day, 24 hours a day."
My Life as a Schizophrenic By MARK DAVIS "Suddenly, dead people in cemeteries were speaking to me. Also, the voices led me to believe that all my old friends were dead, that I was going to lead a revolution, and that I should kill myself by letting a car hit me."
Coming Inside Out By DAVID KELLOGG "Mostly I remember the cage on top of Albany Med where they use to let us psychiatric patients smoke four times a day. That, and wandering the halls of ward E-3 in confused boredom."
Freedom is Not Free By JULIUS GREEN "Thanks to my peers I have a new viewpoint regarding independent living and self-sufficiency ... we all rely on supports in society, whether we have a psychiatric disability or not."
Editor-at-Large: As I See It By MARVIN SPIELER "Have you ever heard of a mental illness Walk-A-Thon ... But why not? Stigma is the reason. We feel the shame, the fear of disclosure if mental illness would become known."
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