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		<title>Cutting Funding for Mental Health Is Costly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read an interesting article by Brandi Grissom first published in The Texas Tribune entitled &#8220;Mental Health Cuts Would Strain Local Texas Jails.&#8221; This article does an excellent job of calling attention to two of the main problems with cost-cutting plans that target community-based mental health treatment – people suffer while funding cuts cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Wood Johnson Foundation&#8217;s &#8220;Rethinking Mental Health&#8221; Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For far too long, mental illness has been stigmatized and those stigmas have served as a barrier to innovation. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation&#8217;s &#8220;Rethinking Mental Health&#8221; competition offers an opportunity for new ideas outside the traditional structures to emerge. What can you do to participate? Visit the Changemakers Website to do any of the following: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Bipolar or Do You Have Bipolar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we wrote Bipolar Disorder for Dummies, we wanted to avoid ruffling any feathers, despite the fact that the “Dummies” series encourages the use of “irreverent humor.” In the spirit of remaining sensitive to our readers, we chose to refer to people with bipolar disorder as “people who have bipolar disorder” rather than “people who are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mad Pride &#8211; Battling the Stigma</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, May 11, 2008 – The Styles section of yesterday’s edition of The New York Times ran an interesting article by Gabrielle Glaser entitled &#8220;&#8216;Mad Pride&#8217; Fights a Stigma.&#8221; In the article, Glaser highlights the fact that people with mental illnesses or “dangerous gifts” are speaking more and more openly about severe mental illness in [...]]]></description>
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