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News
Campaign news and news around the world on ending discrimination and stigma:
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
- House Approves Bill for Mental Health Parity
(New York Times)
"After more than a decade of struggle, the House on Wednesday passed a bill requiring most group health plans to provide more generous coverage for treatment of mental illnesses, comparable to what they provide for physical illnesses." Read article here.
February 2008
- Healing a troubled mind takes more than a pill
(Washington Post)
"This leads us to the final lesson I've learned: Treatment is most effective when the patient is in charge and the ultimate expert in his or her own recovery. There is evidence that when patients feel in control, the results of treatment are better. Treatment works best when the doctor or therapist acts as a kind of expert consultant. As Home Depot puts it: 'You can do it, we can help.'" Read article here. - "Lobotomist" Serves as Warning
(Washington Post)
"One of the most horrifying medical treatments of the 20th century was carried out not clandestinely, but with the approval of the medical establishment, the media and the public. Known as the transorbital or "ice pick" lobotomy, the crude and destructive brain-scrambling operation performed on thousands of psychiatric patients between the 1930s and 1960s was touted as a cure for mental illness."
Read article here. - Caged in China: Parents Grapple with Mentally Ill
(WSJ)
"In the cities, where incomes and awareness of mental illness have increased, some progress is being made. But in rural China, patients suffering from schizophrenia are largely left to their own devices. Families consult witch doctors in search of cures and, in extreme cases, will sometimes cage their own children with the tacit, and sometimes explicit, consent of local officials and police."
Read article here.
