Saturday, May 24, 2008

On Feeling Isolated and Misunderstood

"This is the tuna casserole problem. People who have psychiatric illnesses don't get tuna casseroles and flowers. They don't. And this is why we still know we have work to do to make these conditions, which are just as legitimate and cause just as much, if not more suffering, on the same basis, on a par with the other processes."

Dr. Ken Duckworth


From PBS' Take One Step: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauly.
See more about Dr. Duckworth at NAMI. org.

1 comment:

Kelli said...

that makes so much sence and I agree