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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Southern California
Posts: 308
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Southern California
Posts: 308
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poorly written article
While this family's story is indeed sad - I don't think we got a full or realistic picture.
This article was SO poorly written. I think the point that was trying to be made - If I had to guess - is the discussion of persons with co-occuring disorders being in the prison system. They have no system in place to deal with the needs of someone who has a severe mental illness AND a physical condition such as MS. However, he (the author) did not explain this at all - and made some random correlations - or rather, leads the reader to form random correlations between MS and schizophrenia.
I'm not sure what his symptoms from MS were...but as far as I know there is not a link to schizophrenia. Definitely a link to depression (not from when a person finds out they have MS and then get depressed - depression is actually a sx of MS) - and by extension then, even bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-depression). Not to mention, the writer doesn't even give good examples of him being schizophrenia and thus I question even that dx, unless he heard it from a family member or doctor.
Wow - the article is beyond misleading - it is downright disturbing how poor of a job the author did and what an injustice he has done to people who have MS - and people who struggle with schizophrenia! While I don't consider myself an activist, I certainly do think I will take action about this and contact the editor.
I certainly hope this article wasn't picked up by other papers! (I can't see the AP running such a piece of crud....but these days, you never know!)
Thanks for sharing this with us,
~Keri
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