The Denial of Mental Illness is Alive and Well
Earlier this week, I had dinner with a recently retired lawyer who has spent the past 40-odd years working to protect the rights of people with mental illness. She shared with me an anecdote that, she said, had set the course of her entire career:
One day in the summer of 1970, she was working at a St. Louis legal clinic on her law school break, when a 17-year-old girl walked in with her boyfriend.
Posted on September 14, 2012, in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
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The Denial of Mental Illness is alive and well!