Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
I write about prisons and prisoners a lot, so you might never know that it’s a really hard subject for me to write about, but it is. It’s not just numbers and statistics and information; it’s family. My mom is in prison, on drug charges, and would be much better off in a drug treatment [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
According to CNN, the man who took hostages at Hillary Clinton did so because of his “inability to get mental health treatment.” People in his town say that this has been a problem for a long time.
This country does not do enough for people with mental illness. There are not enough clinics, not [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Democratic Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama is proposing to get mental health care to more veterans and active military personnel who are not yet getting the help they need. On Memorial Day weekend, it seems like the right time to prevent any more veterans from needing to be memorialized because untreated mental illness [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
People who know me from my other site, or who know me in person, know that I was abused for many years and that my mom is in jail on drug charges. They also know I am very smart and in all honors classes and that I now live in [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2007 by Aryeh
A new study by the pentagon shows that many American soldiers are for torture and harsh treatment of Iraqi POWs. The tone of many of the articles on the study was surprised, and sometimes shocked. This came as a surprise to me, because many of these reporters don’t understand the basic fundamentals and truth [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Read this diagnosis and see if you can figure out what the mental illness is. Also, does this remind you of anyone in public office in the United States?
Diagnostic criteria
At least five of the following are necessary for a diagnosis (as with many DSM diagnoses, they must form a pervasive pattern; for example, a [...]
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