Posted by SLS on December 24, 2012, at 5:30:57
In reply to Please sign this official White House petition, posted by LostBoyinNC43 on December 23, 2012, at 22:47:48
Hi Eric.
I think you should add some of this text to your thread on the Medication board. You bring up some great issues and challenges. I would like the opportunity to respond to some of the things you say here, but I want to keep the conversation located on one board.
- Scott
> My thinking is that with the recent horrific events of the Sandy Hook mass shooting, there is now focused attention on chronic mental illness in the media. And politicians are listening and looking for potential solutions. IMO, re-categorizing schizophrenia could be a very good and very positive thing for those afflicted with this awful illness of the brain.> You want relief from your problems? Better scientific understanding of severe mental illness is the answer. Only with that can we get newer and better medications and diagnosis methods. And less stigma and more respect.
> If you have schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar or unipolar major depression...you want newer and more effective medications with better side effect profiles and less stigma...THEN YOU SHOULD SIGN THIS WHITE HOUSE PETITION NOW!
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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