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Month: August 1999

Listening to fighters of demons

August 31, 1999
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By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, August 31, 1999. Not available elsewhere online. People don’t advertise frailties that the public fears. So anonymity usually accompanies treatment of mental illness and drug/alcohol addictions. The privacy is mostly good, as in 12-step programs. But not always. Anonymity robs us of first-person testimony about what […]

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Consumers Seek Unified Voice at Mental Health Conference

August 29, 1999
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From the Oregonian, August 29, 1999 Janelle Anderson hopes to leave the summit knowing she has affected this movement — and her own healing. Feeling suicidal, she committed herself to the Eastern Oregon Psychiatric Center in Pendleton in May. When she became upset and alarmed a nurse, she offered to swallow some calming medication. But […]

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