All the Things We Never Knew (41 page)

Nearly one-third of people with mental illness

National Alliance on Mental Illness. “Dual Diagnosis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness.” Reviewed by Ken Duckworth, M.D., and Jacob L. Freedman, M.D., January 2013.
www2.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Inform_Yourself/About_Mental_Illness/By_Illness/Dual_Diagnosis_Substance_Abuse_and_Mental_Illness.htm
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Kessler, Ronald C., et al. “Lifetime Co-occurrence of DSM-III-R Alcohol Abuse and Dependence with Other Psychiatric Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey.
Archives of General Psychiatry
54 (1997):pp. 313–321.

Regier, D. A. “Co-morbidity of Mental Disorders with Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Results from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Study.”
Journal of the American Medical Association
264 (1990): 2511–2518.

Sheehan, M. F. “Dual Diagnosis.”
Psychiatry Quarterly
64, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 107–134.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01065865
. Accessed April 2, 2015.

NAMI reports: “Abuse of drugs and alcohol . . .”

NAMI. “Dual Diagnosis.”

ANOSOGNOSIA

Frontal lobes organize information

National Alliance on Mental Illness. “Anosognosia.”
www2.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Mental_Illnesses/Schizophrenia9/Anosognosia_Fact_Sheet.htm
. Accessed March 17, 2015.

Treatment Advocacy Center. “Anosognosia.”
www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/problem/anosognosia
. Accessed April 2, 2015.

Amador, Xavier F., and D. H. Strauss. “Poor Insight in Schizophrenia
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Psychiatric Quarterly
64 (1994): pp. 305–318.

Amador, Xavier. F., et al. “Awareness of Illness in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective and Mood Disorders.”
Archives of General Psychiatry
51 (1994): pp. 826–836.

Arango, Celso, and Xavier Amador. “Lessons Learned About Poor Insight.”
Schizophrenia Bulletin
(2010)
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December 16, 2010 online.
http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/12/15/schbul.sbq143.full
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In Oregon, intervention is allowed

Treatment Advocacy Center. “State Standards Charts for Assisted Treatment: Civil Commitment Criteria and Initiation Procedures by State.”
www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/State_Standards_Charts_for_Assisted_Treatment_-_Civil_Commitment_Criteria_and_Initiation_Procedures.pdf
, p. 9.

Treatment Advocacy Center. “Involuntary Treatment Civil Commitment Standards,” p. 2. Accessed March 21, 2015.

Copeland, D. A., and M. V. Heilemann. “Getting ‘to the Point': The Experience of Mothers Getting Assistance for Their Adult Children Who Are Violent and Mentally Ill.”
Nursing Research
57, no. 3 (2008): pp. 136–143.

Treatment Advocacy Center. “Oregon: Getting Your Loved One Help.”
www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=233&Itemid=168
. Accessed March 17, 2015.

CARE FOR CAREGIVERS

In 1979, families frustrated with the lack of services

National Alliance on Mental Illness. “Supporting Recovery.”
www.nami.org/Find-Support/A-Family-Member-or-Caregiver/Supporting-Recovery
. Accessed March 21, 2015.

National Alliance on Mental Illness. “Teens: CIT for Youth.”
www2.nami.org/template.cfm?section=CIT_for_Youth
. Accessed March 21, 2015.

Markey, Dana, et al.
Responding to Youth with Mental Health Needs: A CIT for Youth Implementation Manual
. National Alliance on Mental Illness. July 2011.
www2.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Find_Support/Child_and_Teen_Support/CIT_for_Youth/CITYouthWorkbook_Web.pdf
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Steadman, H., et al. (2001). “Comparing Outcomes of Major Models of Police Responses to Mental Health Emergencies.”
Psychiatric Services
51: pp. 645–649.

CAREGIVER DENIAL

Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death

Lovelace, David.
Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
. New York: Dutton, 2008, p. 107.

GUILT

Nearly all relatives . . . feel guilty

Woolis, Rebecca.
When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness
. New York: Penguin, 1992, pp. 58–70.

MENTAL ILLNESS, THEN AND NOW

Shorter, Edward.
A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac
. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1997, p. iii.

See also: Shorter, quoted in Frances, Allen. “Is This the Worst Time Ever to Have a Severe Mental Illness?” Excerpted August 20, 2014.
http://historypsychiatry.com/2014/08/20/is-this-the-worst-time-ever-to-have-a-severe-mental-illness
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More than 50 percent

“Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities.”
Mental Health, United States, 2010
. Prepared by RTI International. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/SAMHSA, 2010, pp. 123–124.

“Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities” (2004) and “Survey of Inmates in Local Jails” (2002), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Washington, DC. Unpublished data delivered upon special request by Lauren E. Glaze, BJS Statistician, and verified by Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician, March 2, 2009.

James, D. J., & Glaze, L. E.
Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates
(NCJ-213600). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2006. Retrieved from
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/mhppji.p
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HEALING THE MIND

A large percentage of survivors

Author interview with Brian Goff.

Dialectical behavioral therapy

Linehan, M. M., et al. “Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Chronically Parasuicidal Borderline Patients.”
Archives of General Psychiatry
48, no. 12 (December 1991): pp. 1060–1064.

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Slee, N., et al. “Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Self Harm: Randomized Controlled Trial.”
British Journal of Psychiatry
192, no. 3 (March 2008): pp. 202–211.

E. Evans, et al. “The Prevalence of Suicidal Phenomena in Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Population-Based Studies.”
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
35, no. 3 (June 2005): pp. 239–250.

Brandon A. Gaudiano, James D. Herbert, and Steven C. Hayes. “Is It the Symptom or the Relation to It? Investigating Potential Mediators of Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis.”
Behavioral Therapy
41, no. 4 (December 2010): pp. 543–554.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673289/
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“Western medicine moves the locus of control”

Interview with Sheila Hamilton, June 20, 2014.

MINDFULNESS