Tomorrow the show on National Public Radio has a program on forced psychiatric treatment. I can’t find any information beyond that, but you can find about the program in general here.
liz | 3:38 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Hey LS,
The show was OK – nothing great, to which I blame the hostess (host?) for not keeping the phone calls moving. A few just rambled on. Otherwise, it was a predictable why meds are great/why meds are horrible discussion.
It’s still worth checking out, however, and should be archived on the NPR site by 6 PM Eastern today.
Thansk for the heads-up!
Dennis
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