Info Steve Miccio, director of a mental health consumer group called “Project to Empower and Organize the Psychiatrically Labeled (PEOPLe)” in New York State that is staffed by people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities. *A Call to Action* By Steve Miccio, executive director PEOPLe, Inc.; immediate Past President, NYAPRS Whenever there is a tragedy of any…
Info Document Actions Print this Virginia Tech Anguishes Over Missed Signals Date Published: Apr 21, 2007 03:00 AM Author: ADAM GELLER Source: Associated Press via Washington Post BLACKSBURG,Va. — The student slouched into his chair, his face wrapped insunglasses, the brim of his baseball cap pulled down so low his eyeswere almost lost. The Virginia…
Filed Under: youth Reflections on youth, psychiatric labeling, and the catastrophe at Virginia Tech. I’m 51 when I write this. Between between the ages of 19 and 21 I was locked up five times in psychiatric institutions while I was attending Harvard. The current tragedy on the campus of Virginia Tech connects with my heart…