Thursday, October 02, 2003

Maine business leaders warned of mental illness' costs
Portland Press-Herald story on an address by Dennis King, chief executive officer of Spring Harbor Hospital in South Portland, at a breakfast gathering of Portland-area business people. King asked the group to look around their tables and think about the fact that research indicates that one in four workers will suffer from a mental disorder this year, and asked them to "contemplate colleagues suffering from anxiety or depression or psychotic disorders. And think about the stigma of mental illness and why so few people seek treatment, as they worry about the shame and potential impact on their jobs and relationships."  
  

Artwork is a testimony to mental health group (UK)
Story in the Stockport Express - "A projecthelps people recover from the trauma of serious mental illness through art is spreading the word about its work in the run-up to World Mental Health Day. Members of MAPS - Mind Arts Project Stockport - have created a ground-breaking play which is to be broadcast to the nation on Radio Four on October 10."  
  

Mental Health Crisis (Nevada)
KLAS-TV story - "It is a medical nightmare in the making. A state health agency says they have to turn patients away nearly every day, because they don't have enough money or enough doctors. In a small room behind a series of locked doors, you find the Valley's most serious cases of mental illness. What you don't see has many inside the state's mental health system questioning patient care..."