Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) is a mental health program under civil court order that motivates adults with serious mental illnesses, who’ve had difficulty in adhering to voluntary treatment, to engage in treatment...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Cherry-Picking Psychiatric Patients Must Become Illegal

Hospital administrators allow their inpatient psychiatric units to discriminate against aggressive and uncooperative patients. Do administrators believe such discrimination is perfectly acceptable? Do they believe select...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Acknowledging Schizophrenia: Whether to Tell Others or Not

By Brian Plank, Upcoming Author, The King Who Would Be Man

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Five Common Myths About Schizophrenia Debunked

By Ralph Macey, Blogger at https://ralphmacey.journoportfolio.com/; Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Management; Master of Science in Patient Care Coordination; Care Coordinator in the Marketing and Commun...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

When Help Is Miles Away: Mental Illness in Rural Areas

By Janet Coburn, Author, Bipolar Me; Upcoming Author, Bipolar Us; Blogger, Bipolar Me

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

What Does “Gravely Ill” Mean in the Mental Illness System?

By Kartar Diamond, Mental Illness (really brain disease) System Advocate, Mother of a Man with Schizophrenia, Upcoming Author of a Book About Her Son's Schizophrenia

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Would Things Go Better for a Teen With Bipolar Disorder Today?

By Janice Morgan, Author, Suspended Sentence: A Memoir

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Prioritize Serious Mental Illness

Years of experience as an inpatient psychiatric social worker prepared me for work in mobile emergency psychiatric services. My book, Breakdown, details the roles of emergency psychiatric clinicians. Determining whether ...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

A Nigerian Story of Schizophrenia: Religion Versus Science

By Anonymous, Psychologist, Nigeria, Africa

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Court Cases Fuel Deinstitutionalization

Misguided and ignorant lawyers led the movement that eliminated psychiatric hospitals in the latter part of the last century. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz’s perception that mental illness (really a brain disease) is a myth ...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

A Glance at a Broken Mental Health System

By Anthony Acampora, Author of Impact Devotional Series: Adding Fuel to Your Faith and Overcoming Emotional Obstacles through Faith: Navigating the Mind Field; Master of Ministry; Master of Biblical Studies; Global Goodw...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

MA Needs Robust Involuntary Outpatient Treatment, Not Flimsy Law

Before the 1970s, the United States presumed that not being psychotic was better than being psychotic. If the psychotic person couldn't recognize this, the state took care of her or him. It didn’t ask what the psychotic ...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Hippocrates Knew That Mental Illness is Brain-Based

In ancient Greece, Hippocrates influenced how formal medicine would be practiced in later centuries. Hippocrates never went to medical school. The only prerequisite to becoming a physician was being born into a family of...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

My Schizophrenia Almost Made Me Kill

By Joseph Merlin Bowers, Author of Life Under a Cloud: The Story of a Schizophrenic; Blogger, The Unashamed Schizophrenic

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Hope for a Cure of Mental Illness Vanishes

In the 1800s, legislators, psychiatrists, and the public found asylums useful in two ways. Firstly, asylums shielded common folk from the bizarre and violent behaviors of patients. Secondly, asylums shielded the patients...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Deinstitutionalization Goes Astray & No One Considers Anosognosia

Anosognosia, a lack of awareness of being ill, is one of the principal reasons that involuntary treatment for the populations with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychotic features (really brain disease) is huma...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

What is Involuntary Outpatient Treatment and Why is it Needed?

Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) is synonymous with involuntary outpatient treatment. AOT helps people with psychosis who aren't taking their medications due to anosognosia. AOT is mandated, usually through court-orde...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

The Case for Mental Illness and Criminal Justice Reform

By David E. Geiger, Author of In the Matter of Edwin Potter: Mental Illness and Criminal Justice Reform; Blogger, www.davidegeiger.com

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Involuntary Treatment Made a Decent Life Possible

By Joseph Merlin Bowers, Author of Life Under a Cloud: The Story of a Schizophrenic; Blogger, The Unashamed Schizophrenic

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

The Tragic Irony of Psychiatry Promoting Antipsychiatry

The antipsychiatry movement promotes the notion that mental illness (really brain disease) doesn’t exist and thus people should abandon or avoid treatment, such as medication. People in the antipsychiatry camp believe th...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

How Disability Rights Groups Fail People with Schizophrenia

By Susan Inman, Author of After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Outpatient Agency Expected to Help Seriously Mentally Ill Fails

By Anonymous

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

What’s in a Personality?

Personality is a complicated array of behavioral and emotional characteristics that distinguish an individual. A personality disorder is a perpetual pattern of cognitive, affective, and interpersonal functioning that dev...

Lynn Nanos

30.11.2022

Roots of the Asylum

Understanding history can help legislators and physicians understand the present and prevent a repetition of mistakes. How the government should treat mentally ill (really brain-diseased) people and where it should house...

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Assisted Outpatient Treatment Myths Versus Reality

Cherry-Picking Psychiatric Patients Must Become Illegal

Acknowledging Schizophrenia: Whether to Tell Others or Not

Five Common Myths About Schizophrenia Debunked

When Help Is Miles Away: Mental Illness in Rural Areas

What Does “Gravely Ill” Mean in the Mental Illness System?

Would Things Go Better for a Teen With Bipolar Disorder Today?

Prioritize Serious Mental Illness

A Nigerian Story of Schizophrenia: Religion Versus Science

Court Cases Fuel Deinstitutionalization

A Glance at a Broken Mental Health System

MA Needs Robust Involuntary Outpatient Treatment, Not Flimsy Law

Hippocrates Knew That Mental Illness is Brain-Based

My Schizophrenia Almost Made Me Kill

Hope for a Cure of Mental Illness Vanishes

Deinstitutionalization Goes Astray & No One Considers Anosognosia

What is Involuntary Outpatient Treatment and Why is it Needed?

The Case for Mental Illness and Criminal Justice Reform

Involuntary Treatment Made a Decent Life Possible

The Tragic Irony of Psychiatry Promoting Antipsychiatry

How Disability Rights Groups Fail People with Schizophrenia

Outpatient Agency Expected to Help Seriously Mentally Ill Fails

What’s in a Personality?

Roots of the Asylum

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