Treat a disease, you win, you lose. Treat a person…..
Last week found me in East Lansing, Michigan, at the invitation of NAMI Lansing, whose leadership did a terrific job setting up a public forum. I was especially delighted that a high school teacher had brought about a dozen students to hear me. They’d read my book in his psychology class.
After I speak, I always spend time talking to audience members and the most common comment that I hear is: “You’ve written my story.”
I was approached by a woman in East Lansing whose brother was in jail charged with a minor crime linked to his mental illness.
“Please, can you help me?” she pleaded. “He’s never been in trouble before and now he’s sick and we can’t get him help! What can we do!”