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mental illness

"Ricky, what are you doing? ... Please come down."

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Posted on August 11, 2008 - 6:43am at Stone Soup Station
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Desperation, frustration, mental illness, drugs; who knows what causes an individual to step outside the bounds of "rational behavior"?

Bridge climber disrupts downtown traffic | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

"Indianapolis Homeless: They don't fit common stereotypes....while mental illness or substance abuse was found in more than one-

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Posted on July 18, 2008 - 6:35am at Stone Soup Station
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18 percent is a substantial reduction.

“Climate Change Delusion”

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Posted on July 9, 2008 - 9:45am at Tennessee Free
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Global Warming is now a mental illness.
Really.

PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of “climate change delusion” - and they haven’t even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru.
Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children’s Hospital say this delusion was a [...]

California Commission Calls Death Penalty "Dysfunctional"

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Posted on July 1, 2008 - 3:43pm at tcask
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Yesterday the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice created by the California State Senate released its landmark report on the death penalty. Their findings reveal that California's death penalty system is excessively costly and riddled with problems leading to lack of fairness and wrongful convictions.

"Stigma... just a nice way of window dressing discrimination people with mental-health problems face during their illness and re

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Posted on June 13, 2008 - 7:20am at Stone Soup Station
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While perceptions about mental illness have changed significantly over the past couple of decades, there is still considerable stigmatization and ostracism associated with those who suffer from these illnesses.

One lost life doesn’t deserve another

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Posted on June 5, 2008 - 2:45pm at thinktrain
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It’s amazing to me that one group of people can forgive someone for killing a member of their family while another group can condemn a man t

Take A Chance

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Posted on June 5, 2008 - 11:40am at Nashville21
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Mark Warner on Barack Obama in Bristol, "seven years ago y'all didn't know me too well, and I asked you to take a chance, and you took that chance and we moved Virginia forward. Now I'm asking you to take the time to listen to Barack Obama and give him a chance."*

*rough quote

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"This encounter was extremely eye-opening. It led me to think about the complexities of being homeless."

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Posted on June 4, 2008 - 6:50am at Stone Soup Station
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I'm going to say it again here: the faces of homelessness have changed and the stereotypical image of the homeless person, although there are still those folks out there, are not necessarily the norm anymore.

Richard Taylor Receives Life Sentence

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Posted on June 3, 2008 - 4:02pm at tcask
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Press Release from the ACLU:

Healing the Hidden Wounds of Depression in the Military

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Posted on June 2, 2008 - 2:11pm at NPT Media Update
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We as citizens must never forget this: That while we may not wear the uniform, those who do are serving not only the country we call America – but they are also forwarding all of her possibilities in doing so as well.

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