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Time magazine, Oct. 3, 2015 Presidential candidate Donald Trump responded to President Obama’s renewed calls for gun control following the recent Oregon shooting in an interview with Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, saying people are always going “come through the cracks.” “I watched his statement, and I understand exactly what he’s saying,” says Trump. […]
BuzzFeed, August 30, 2015 Bekah Miles, a 20-year-old student at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, has made a big splash by helping to bring attention to a pressing mental health issue. Miles was diagnosed with depression last year, and she told BuzzFeed that she sought help after hearing her college professor’s story of dealing […]
The Register-Guard, April 21, 2015 Last month, Kim Gutierrez, a mother of three girls, moved out of a home she has rented for several years in a neighborhood she loved. “I no longer feel safe here,” Gutierrez said. “I hate to leave here, but that is it.” The source of her anxiety: the large single-family […]
What does stigma look like? This series uses a search engine’s autocomplete feature to highlight common opinions on people with mental illnesses. The autocomplete results show how mental illnesses are commonly associated with violence and crime, and reveal horrifying opinions like “schizophrenics should be killed.”
from: Mental Health Association reply-to: info@mentalhealthportland.org to: letters@latimes.com, sue.horton@latimes.com, horseylatimes@gmail.com date: Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:22 AM subject: response to – Robin Williams’ ‘spark of madness’ let him soar above his demons Editors. The headline “Robin Williams’ ‘spark of madness’ let him soar above his demons” in your August 13, 2014 opinion editorial is […]
from: Mental Health Association <info@mentalhealthportland.org> reply-to: info@mentalhealthportland.org to: letters@nytimes.com date: Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:44 AM Editors. The headline “Busy Working, Robin Williams Fought Demons” in your August 13, 2014 article is a disservice to our community and adds to the stigma of mental illness – ironically the subject of the article. Mental illness […]
Mental Health Association;info@mentalhealthportland.org Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:56 AM Reply-To: info@mentalhealthportland.org To: rgletters@registerguard.com, dave.baker@registerguard.com Cc: sherri@registerguard.com Editors. The headline “Taming the demons of mental illness” in your August 3, 2014 article is a disservice to our community and adds to the stigma of mental illness – ironically the subject of the article. Mental illness […]
San Jose Mercury News, March 5, 2014 Adam has a secret. He’s shared it with his family and close friends. In fact, he would like to talk about it more openly. But he doesn’t want to use his real name in this story because he fears that people at his new high-tech job will see […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, Oct. 9, 2013 When two U.K. chain stores pulled “mental patient” and “psycho” Halloween costumes from sale and apologized, it made headlines that stretched across the Atlantic, from the BBC to CNN, AP, Reuters and all points in between. Now, just a few days later, the story’s gone […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, August 13, 2013 Anonymous fliers being posted around Portland, with messages threatening to reveal the names of neighborhood residents who receive disability benefits, qualify as “hate speech,” according to the Portland Commission on Disability (PCOD). As of today, the PCOD says it has received 75 reports of the […]
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