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Author Topic: Article on families with mentally ill adult kids  (Read 458 times)
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« on: February 10, 2013, 12:00:20 PM »

in the New York Times today. Pretty grim, but good that its getting this kind of attention.

A Guide in the Darkness

By JOHN LELAND

www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/nyregion/for-families-struggling-with-mental-illness-carolyn-wolf-is-a-guide-in-the-darkness.html



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« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2013, 12:26:57 PM »

Very grim article.  What are families who don't have money supposed to do?

Or who have run out of money? Or have adult children wandering the streets non compliant with their meds?

Sure as a parent you can work on accepting it and trying to make a life for yourself. 

But where is the actual help that these tortured souls need so much?

We sure don't have a very good system here in the US.

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« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2013, 09:40:02 PM »

Good article. Thanks. I sent it on to a  lawyer friend as well.
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« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2013, 11:49:57 AM »

I didn't think it was grim. My d is only 16 and I actually found it reassuring that there even exists a person who might be able to help us map out her future.

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