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	Mental illness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mental illness is distinct from the legal concepts of sanity and insanity.
		Mental health, mental hygiene, behavioral health, and mental wellness are all terms used to describe the state or absence of mental illness.
		Drug therapies for severe mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and clinical depression, which are consistent with biochemical models, have been remarkably effective, and there are reports of increasingly effective treatments for schizophrenia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mental_illness (1881 words)

	Learn more about Mental illness in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mental illness is distinct from the legal concept of insanity.
		According to the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, major mental illness, including major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, when compared with all other diseases (such as cancer and heart disease), is the commonent cause of disability in the United States.
		Drug therapies for severe mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and clinical depression which are consistent with biochemical models have been remarkably effective, and there are reports of increasively effective treatments for schizophrenia.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/me/mental_illness.html (1009 words)

	Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty
		Mental retardation should instead be a mitigating factor to be considered by the jury during sentencing.
		In addition to Walton's mental illness, he scored a 66 on a recent IQ test and may be mentally retarded.
		Thomas Nevius, who suffers from mental retardation and brain damage, and who functions intellectually, and in other ways, as a child, ranks in the bottom 1 to 2% of the population in terms of mental capacity.
	www.deathpenaltyinfo.org /article.php?scid=28&did=176 (4131 words)

	Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill: Capital, Interest Groups, and the Eclipse of Social Policy
		At issue was the system of state run hospitals for the mentally ill, which were increasingly perceived as inhumane and, with the help of new medicat ions, rather unnecessary for large portions of the patient population.
		In 1963, the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers instituted the centers, but due to the financial drain of the Vietnam War during the 1960s and the financial crisis of the 1970s, the program was not fully funded.
		Organizations representing patients, such as the Mental Patients Liberation Front and the Na tional Alliance for the Mentally Ill, lacked the political clout of larger organizations and tended not to be as well funded as the other organizations.
	www.sociology.org /content/vol003.004/thomas.html (5809 words)

	Mentally Ill Don’t Belong in Prison
		I have seen the effect of prison on the mentally ill and the effect of the mentally ill on the prison.
		Skeptics say that mental health courts are a fine concept in theory, but are flawed in reality because there are insufficient services to which mentally ill offenders can be diverted.
		Mental health courts are a public policy triage—a critical first step in stopping the shameful practice of warehousing our most vulnerable citizens in places that should be reserved for those who owe a debt to society.
	www.psych.org /pnews/99-12-17/prison.html (1021 words)

	United States: Mentally Ill Mistreated in Prison (Human Rights Watch, 22-10-2003)
		Mentally ill prisoners are more likely than others to end up housed in especially harsh conditions, such as isolation, that can push them over the edge into acute psychosis.
		Mentally ill prisoners can find it difficult if not impossible to comply with prison rules, and end up with higher than average rates of disciplinary infractions.
		Mentally ill prisoners have been punished for self-mutilating (“destroying state property”); attempting suicide with a torn sheet (“destroying state property”); for yelling and kicking cell doors because of hearing voices (“creating a disturbance”); for throwing papers at a guard while delusional (“battery”); and for smearing feces on the cell door (“being untidy”).
	www.hrw.org /press/2003/10/us102203.htm (841 words)

	Crime and the Mentally Ill
		Mental illnesses are brain disorders resulting in a diminished capacity for coping with the demands of life.
		Criminalizing the Mentally Ill -- The criminalization of the mentally ill is inhumane.
		The Death Penalty and Mental Retardation -The US Supreme Court ruled the execution of persons with mental retardation is not cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the 8th Amendment.
	www.karisable.com /crmh.htm (3643 words)

	CNN.com - Report: 16 percent of state prison inmates mentally ill - July 15, 2001
		One in every eight state prisoners was receiving some type of mental health therapy, according to the report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Mental Health Treatment in State Prisons." About 60 percent of those diagnosed as mentally ill were receiving psychotropic medications, which include anti-depressants, stimulants, sedatives and tranquilizers.
		Only 12 state facilities were primarily for mental health or psychiatric confinement, and an additional 143 state institutions reported that they specialized in mental health treatment.
		Only about 10 percent of mentally ill inmates were housed in a 24-hour mental health unit.
	www.cnn.com /2001/US/07/15/prisons.mental.health (429 words)

	NPR : One Woman's Crusade for the Mentally Ill
		For 25 years, Virginia Gonzalez Torres has been facing down anyone who neglects or abuses Mexico's mentally ill. Now a 53-year-old mother of four, she began her crusade after her older sister was sent to a private psychiatric hospital to be treated for manic depression.
		Until a year and a half ago, it was a hellhole, virtually a prison, for seriously ill mental patients.
		Mental health experts who know Gonzalez’ work say she's taken treatment ideas pioneered in richer countries like the United States, Italy and Spain and pushed them beyond what anyone expected was possible.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2002/may/mexico (710 words)

	More Homeless Mentally Ill Than Expected According To UCSD Study: Interventions Urged (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mentally Ill Have Higher Odds Of Developing Brain, Lung Cancers (October 12, 2004) -- Men and women with mental disorders have higher odds of being diagnosed with brain tumors and lung cancer and they develop these cancers at younger ages than individuals without mental illness...
		Because homeless mentally ill were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized as non-homeless patients, the investigators said improved care for homeless persons with serious mental illness may be cost effective or at least result in improved patient outcomes with only moderate increases in total costs.
		While one-fourth to one-third of homeless persons are estimated to have a serious mental illness, this is one of the first studies to document and describe the other side of the picture — the number of mentally ill who are homeless.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/02/050201101738.htm (929 words)

	Mentally Ill Fill Prison Cells, Says Fed Study
		Kupers, a psychiatrist and professor at the Wright Institute, a graduate school of psychology in Berkeley, Calif., says mentally ill inmates are often undiagnosed, and many are ill-prepared to survive within the general prison population.
		While 16 percent of inmates in both jails and state prisons are mentally ill, only 7 percent of federal inmates fit that classification, according to the report.
		“During the year preceding their arrest, 30 percent of mentally ill inmates in jail and 20 percent of those in state or federal prison reported a period of homelessness, when they were living either on the street or in a shelter,” the report says.
	www.afscme.org /publications/acunews/acu29901.htm (1077 words)

	Point/Counterpoint 10-27-97: Should ‘guilty but mentally ill’ replace the insanity defense?
		Michigan was the first state to enact guilty but mentally ill. It was a reaction to a 1974 State Supreme Court decision holding that after 60 days’ confinement, someone acquitted by reason of insanity had to meet the standards of civil commitment.
		By substituting guilty but mentally ill for the old insanity plea, this function is lost, and jurors can avoid the moral issues inherent in deciding guilt or innocence.
		In cases where guilty but mentally ill is used, it is the prosecutor, not the defendant, who urges the jury to return a verdict of guilty or guilty but mentally ill, those verdicts being equivalent.
	www.physweekly.com /archive/97/10_27_97/pc.html (557 words)

	Jail poses danger to mentally ill - 1/12/03
		Nationwide, a greater number of lawbreakers with mental disturbances also are being incarcerated as a side effect of psychiatric hospital closings and the trend of community-based care, according to corrections officials and health specialists.
		Michigan shut 10 state mental hospitals in the last decade, and the number of new state prison inmates reporting past mental health care rose from 6,169 (19 percent) a year in 1990 to 11,598 (23 percent) last year.
		The number of mentally ill behind bars today is almost five times the number in state mental hospitals, according to federal figures.
	www.detnews.com /2003/metro/0301/12/a01-57906.htm (2156 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: Mistreating the mentally ill by Rich Lowry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Most of the mentally ill roaming the streets are too sick to know they are sick.
		The president's commission aped the language and concerns of this anti-involuntary treatment bloc, calling the mentally ill "consumers" and emphasizing the need for their participation in their "plans for recovery." That's fine, so long as the mentally ill people in question know they are ill.
		It is allowing mentally ill people to go untreated and roam the streets, free to do harm to themselves and others, that adds to the stigma of psychiatric disorders.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/richlowry/rl20030731.shtml (704 words)

	Job Rights for the Mentally Ill
		Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers must accommodate the mentally ill just as they do the physically ill. Often the accommodations for the mentally ill are the less costly of the two, says Heffron.
		Mentally ill employees in most large companies can draw support from employment assistance programs.
		And she adds that the stigma of mental illness is already decreasing, much as the stigma of cancer has faded.
	my.webmd.com /content/article/13/1674_50405 (870 words)

	Treatment Advocacy Center
		Mentally ill man is severely beaten in his building
		The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) continues to fund much research unrelated to severe mental illnesses, often research that is the responsibility of other federal agencies.
		Chair Bob Davison said: "Our careful deliberations and extensive research led us to conclude that for those who are too ill to access mental health services, IOC strikes the appropriate balance of individual's well being and their constitutional liberties." Read more...
	www.psychlaws.org (692 words)

	frontline: a case of insanity: the jailed and imprisoned mentally ill \| PBS
		This 1999 report from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics -- its first comprehensive study of mental illness in correctional facilities -- found that there were approximately 284,000 mentally ill offenders incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails in 1998, or fully 16 percent of the total population in the nation's corrections systems.
		Among the report's other findings: mentally ill offenders were more likely to have committed violent offenses; half of the mentally ill inmates reported having at least three prior sentences; and only 60 percent of the mentally ill in state and federal prisons received some form of mental health treatment during their incarceration.
		The central premise of the report, its authors say, "is that people with mental illness rarely belong in jail and prison." Among their recommendations, the authors say that mentally ill patients should be diverted from the criminal justice system into mental health facilities and that the "continuum of care" extend beyond discharge.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/crime/jailed (815 words)

	USATODAY.com - Texas executes mentally ill convict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A mentally ill man who was spared the death chamber last year by the Supreme Court was executed Wednesday for fatally stabbing a woman during an attempted rape.
		Colburn was convicted of choking and fatally stabbing a hitchhiker, Peggy Murphy, 55, at his apartment just north of Houston as she resisted a rape attempt.
		Colburn had been in mental institutions at least twice and in and out of prisons numerous times for robbery, burglary, assault and arson.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-03-26-texas-execution_x.htm (298 words)

	Amnesty International USA: Death Penalty
		The execution of those with mental illness or "the insane" is clearly prohibited by international law.
		Governments that continue to use the death penalty “with respect to minors and the mentally ill are particularly called upon to bring their domestic legislation into conformity with international legal standards.”
		Constitutional protections for those with other forms of mental illness are minimal, however, and numerous prisoners have been executed despite suffering from serious mental illness.
	www.amnestyusa.org /abolish/mental_illness.html (417 words)

	Children of Parents with Mental Illness - AACAP Facts For Families # 39
		Mental illnesses in parents represent a risk for children in the family.
		Mental illness of a parent can put stress on the marriage and affect the parenting abilities of the couple, which in turn can harm the child.
		Medical, mental health or social service professionals working with mentally ill adults need to inquire about the children and adolescents, especially about their mental health and emotional development.
	www.aacap.org /publications/factsfam/parentmi.htm (605 words)

	Schizophrenia.com, The World's No. 1 Schizophrenia Website - including paranoid schizophrenia and schizoaffective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I had just asked a Yale professor why there are no mentally ill people living on the streets of Norway, where he helped design some of the most progressive mental health treatment in the world.
		Then a colleague mentioned she was working on a story about Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies dumping a mentally ill man on skid row in downtown Los Angeles, where thousands of chronically ill people sleep on filthy, rat-infested streets.
		This year, NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) organized a series of walks across the country to raise money and awareness Read more...
	www.schizophrenia.com (1449 words)

	NNAAMI : National Network of Adults and Adolescents with a mentally ill parent. Australian , Mentally Ill Parent, ...
		We are a group of people who have experienced life with a mentally ill parent.
		"The Loneliness and Trauma of Coping with the Mentally Ill".
		Children of mentally ill parents continue to be neglected despite government reports since 1993 highlighting their higher suicide risk, according to a national welfare group.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~nnaami (1059 words)

	Bishops' Statements
		We have in mind a broader category of brothers and sisters whose well-being is diminished: adults who suffer from chronic or severe and disabling mental illness, youth with serious emotional disorders, all those with any psychological disorder, and those who are chemically dependent, either separate from or in conjunction with mental illness.
		The impact of mental illness, substance abuse disorders and other addiction problems is felt in another context: the interrelatedness they have with crime and the criminal justice system.
		Untreated mentally ill persons comprise a disproportionately large segment of the criminal justice population in the United States.
	www.nebcathcon.org /bishops%27_statements.htm (7883 words)

	Fact Sheet: Criminalization of the Severely Mentally Ill
		People with severe mental illnesses also are sometimes jailed because their families find it is the most expedient means of getting the person into needed treatment.
		Thus, for a family seeking treatment for an ill family member, having the person arrested may be the most effective way to accomplish their goal.
		Another major problem for those with severe mental illnesses in jails and prisons is exposure to infectious diseases and neglect of their medical problems.
	www.psychlaws.org /GeneralResources/Fact3.htm (1306 words)

	The Center for Reintegration -- Meaningful life assistance for people with persistent mental illness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Now in its eighth year, the scholarship was established to assist people with severe mental illness acquire the educational and vocational skills necessary to reintegrate into society, secure jobs and regain their lives.
		Few works of art are as forceful a commentary on severe mental illnesses and how they affect individuals and their families than Michael Mack’s one-man play, “Hearing Voices (Speaking in Tongues).” The play’s subject: growing up with a mother who has schizophrenia.
		But the bad news is half of all consumers with these serious mental diseases stop taking their drugs, leading to a greater risk of relapse.
	www.reintegration.com (1273 words)

	healthyplace-Consumer Health News, Information and Resources Updated Daily-Schizophrenia-Study: Nearly One in Six ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They believe homelessness among those with serious mental illness could be reduced or prevented by providing individuals with substance abuse treatment and helping them obtain public-funded health benefits.
		Because the homeless mentally ill are more than twice as likely to be hospitalized as mentally ill people with housing, improving care for homeless people with serious mental illness may be cost effective, the researchers add.
		"Homelessness is an increasingly important public health issue, with seriously mentally ill persons most at risk for homelessness," study senior author Dr. Dilip Jeste, a professor of psychiatry and neurosciences and director of the UCSD Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, said in a prepared statement.
	www.healthscout.com /news/113/523693/main.html (404 words)

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