by Candida Fink, MD | Feb 25, 2011 | Advocacy
I just read an interesting article by Brandi Grissom first published in The Texas Tribune entitled “Mental Health Cuts Would Strain Local Texas Jails.” This article does an excellent job of calling attention to two of the main problems with cost-cutting...
by Candida Fink, MD | Sep 24, 2009 | Advocacy
For far too long, mental illness has been stigmatized and those stigmas have served as a barrier to innovation. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Rethinking Mental Health” competition offers an opportunity for new ideas outside the traditional...
by Joe | Dec 30, 2008 | Advocacy, Opinions, Stigma
When we wrote Bipolar Disorder for Dummies, we wanted to avoid ruffling any feathers, despite the fact that the “Dummies” series encourages the use of “irreverent humor.” In the spirit of remaining sensitive to our readers, we chose to refer to people with bipolar...
by Candida Fink, MD | May 12, 2008 | Advocacy
Sunday, May 11, 2008 – The Styles section of yesterday’s edition of The New York Times ran an interesting article by Gabrielle Glaser entitled “‘Mad Pride’ Fights a Stigma.” In the article, Glaser highlights the fact that people with mental...
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