{"id":97,"date":"2008-10-13T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T20:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2017-01-05T04:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T09:54:35","slug":"closer-than-people-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/closer-than-people-realize\/","title":{"rendered":"Closer Than People Realize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headline of an October 12 editorial at TheDay.com in Connecticut: <span id=\"ctl00_CPHMaster_ctl00_lblHead\" class=\"basicXLargeBloodNoBold\"><em>Mental Illness Is Closer Than People Realize<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span id=\"ctl00_CPHMaster_ctl00_lblBody\" class=\"basicLarge\">Every town has people with mental illness. The genes, molecules, brain changes and trauma that cause mental illnesses do not check ZIP codes or income.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span id=\"ctl00_CPHMaster_ctl00_lblBody\" class=\"basicLarge\">Chances are that you meet people with mental illnesses every day without knowing it. We don&#8217;t wear badges or cowbells anymore.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_CPHMaster_ctl00_lblBody\" class=\"basicLarge\">\u201c&#8217;Crazy&#8217; is not a useful term. People with illnesses have personalities, talents, skills, jobs, and relationships. They have ties to the community, addresses, and appointments the next day.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;M<span id=\"ctl00_CPHMaster_ctl00_lblBody\" class=\"basicLarge\">ental illness is not a crime. Most people with mental illnesses are not criminals and most criminals do not have mental illnesses. Mental illness doesn&#8217;t make you a bad neighbor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The editorial was written by Robert E. Davidson, director of the Eastern Regional Mental Health Board, a planning, evaluation and advocacy agency for people with mental illnesses in Eastern Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline of an October 12 editorial at TheDay.com in Connecticut: Mental Illness Is Closer Than People Realize. &#8220;Every town has people with mental illness. The genes, molecules, brain changes and trauma that cause mental illnesses do not check ZIP codes or income.&#8221; &#8220;Chances are that you meet people with mental illnesses every day without knowing\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/closer-than-people-realize\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mental-illness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}