While I applaud the intent of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s effort to “grade” the 50 states in the U.S. on their mental health care, the problem with such reports is that they are out-of-date and virtually useless from the moment they are published. The problem with the...

American’s have the “lowest expectation levels of any society in the Western world.”  These were Ralph Nader’s sentiments soon after Obama’s electoral landslide victory.  In three days, in a three mile radius, in three lives I witnessed the veracity of his assessment....

More testifying today at the State House on the Mental Health budget slash for '08-'09. I've been up there twice in front of the House Finance Committee. The vulnerable group of those with serious mental illness is easy to pick on as many can't testify for themselves and won't show up in large group...

In the past two week's I've been up twice to testify on budgets at the House Finance Committee. Nope, didn't make major news. One concerned the extended gutting of Mental Health & Retardation. The first was gutting Medicaid. Going to these hearings are way more fun than going to the dentist, goi...