Originally posted at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Washington — December 12, 2013 — Today, Congressman Tim Murphy introduced legislation that, if passed, would reverse some of the […]
Advocacy
The Media Missed the Story: Civil Rights and the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act
By Christina Exoo (Originally published here) There’s a fierce debate brewing on Capitol Hill over two competing bills that seek to overhaul our nation’s mental health system. Rep. Ron Barber […]
More On the “Civil War” Between Mental Health Advocates
By Justin Brown (Originally posted here) In a recent Huffington Post blog — republished at Mad In America — prominent psychiatrist Allen Frances declared: “Psychiatric coercion has become largely a paper tiger: rare, short-term, […]
Defeating Goliath: Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue, and People with Lived Experience and Their Allies are Rising Up
By Leah Harris (Originally published here) The political status quo cannot be trusted to fix a problem that they themselves created. Many politicians address the symptoms of our deeper problems, […]
The Great Turning
By Iden Campbell Mccollum (Originally posted here) When I first heard of the proposed “Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013” (H.R. 3717)”, I felt relieved and thought […]
The Power of Words: What the Wall Street Journal Didn’t Tell You
By Scott Bryant-Comstock Note: This blog was published on Mad in America and is adapted from Scott Byant-Comstock’s “Morning Zen” blog on the Children’s Mental Health Network website. Two weeks ago there was an editorial […]
The Murphy Bill: A Threat to Justice Everywhere
By Gina Nikkel (Originally published here) HR 3717, authored by Congressman Tim Murphy, has been introduced in response to mounting concerns about the treatment of persons with mental health challenges. […]
We are the People
By Oryx Cohen (Originally published here) Mahatma Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” With Pennsylvania Republican Representative Tim […]
A Declaration of Interdependence for the Era of the Murphy Bill
By Ron Bassman (Originally published here) How we think about health, happiness, and self-fulfillment, and a myriad of issues including suicide, inexplicable violent acts, and the influence of technology/information glut, […]
The Murphy Bill: People are Afraid
By Noel Hunter (Originally published here) Recently, the Murphy Bill in the United States Congress has resurfaced as a tangible threat to the civil liberties of individuals labelled “seriously mentally […]
H.R. 2646 (Murphy Bill) What does it mean? A survivor’s perspective
By Sharon Cretsinger (Originally published here) In this document, I have attempted to summarize all of the sections of this bill by their most important points so that they can […]