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'Henry's Demons': Mental Illness from the Inside (NPR, 2/26/2011) Length: 7 min (http://www.npr.org/2011/02/26/134038233/henrys-demons-mental-illness-from-the-inside)
"Henry was taken first to a regular emergency room, and then to a mental hospital, where doctors diagnosed him as being in the first stages of schizophrenia. Now, almost 10 years later, Henry is beginning to recover, and he and his father have collaborated on a memoir of his experiences, Henry's Demons: Living With Schizophrenia, a Father and Son's Story."
Discussion questions: Is this a book you would like to read? Why or why not?
Severely Mentally Ill Persons More Likely to be in Jails than Hospitals, State Data Shows Treatment Advocacy Center's 50-State Report Reveals Mentally Ill Persons Three Times More Likely to Be in Correctional Institutions Than Psychiatric Hospitals (CNBC, May 12, 2010)
"Americans with severe mental illnesses are three times more likely to be in jail or prison than in a psychiatric hospital."
Link to the original report dated May, 2010 (PDF).
Good videos to accompany this article would be Frontline's The New Asylums and the follow-up to that episode, The Released. Both are available for free viewing online. Links to those videos can be found on the Psychological Disorders Videos page.
Discussion questions: Why is this a problem? What does this data say about American attitudes toward mental illness?
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