I was just gearing up to write an angry column about this. Ah, well. I’ll have to get angry about something else.
liz | 8:23 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.
Thats one Fox who won’t be in charge of the hen house afterall.
I fear good news at our nation’s psychiatric hospitals is merely the absence of more bad news. And here it is just a return to the status quo.
New Jersey’s legislature set forth its intentions at N.J.S.A 30:4-27.1.c : It is the policy of this State that persons in the public mental health system receive inpatient treatment and rehabilitation services in accordance with the highest professional standards and which will enable those hospitalized persons to return to their community as soon as it is clinically appropriate. Nice words, hopeful words but in the final analysis just words until New Jersey’s politicians evidence the same concern this misbegotten appointment engendered.
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