Is it Now Time to Tackle the Issue of Mental Illness?
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| What does mental illness look like and what can we do as a society to address the issue? |
Here is a parent's heartbreaking account of living with a mentally ill child and navigating the educational and mental health system. From The Anarchist Soccer Mom and Thinking the Unthinkable.
The Blue Review had the article entitled, "I am Adam Lanza's Mother".
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In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.
Three days before 20 year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year old son Michael (name changed) missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong color pants.
“I can wear these pants,” he said, his tone increasingly belligerent, the black-hole pupils of his eyes