mental illness
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Golden Krust Owner Lowell Hawthorne Reportedly Owed Millions in Back Taxes
Many in the black and Caribbean communities reeled over news of the recent apparent suicide of Lowell Hawthorne, founder and CEO of Golden Krust Bakery & Grill, with commentary ranging from the proverbial “Money cannot buy happiness” to true befuddlement: “Why would he do it?” For those searching for an answer to explain his actions,…
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A Crime by Any Other Name Is Probably Not Mental Illness
Stop me if you have heard this before: A person with a gun walks into a church and shoots as many people as he can before being killed. What is to blame for this? Regarding the recent Texas church massacre, President Donald Trump stated that this was caused by a “mental health problem.” In other…
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Family of Mentally Ill Inmate Killed in Denver Jail in 2015 Will Receive $4,600,000 Settlement
A settlement in the 2015 death of an inmate at the hands of deputies in a Denver jail will include a multimillion-dollar payout to the man’s family and changes in how Denver Sheriff Department deputies treat mentally ill inmates. The settlement, which includes $4.6 million for the family of Michael Marshall, was announced Wednesday. It…
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Slowly in the 4th Quarter
Today was one of those “Barely get dressed” kind of days. Today was one of those “You gotta get out of the house” kind of days. Today was one of those “You can’t let the world drain you” kind of days. Today was a “Leggings off the floor, relatively clean T-shirt and closest sneakers” kinda…
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NYC’s Tough Gun Laws Stopped Me From Killing Myself
In the winter of 2013, I decided that I would purchase a gun and kill myself. I was in a very deep state of depression, with many days so debilitating that my mattress felt like a tub of quicksand pulling me deeper into a dark, bottomless free fall. That I could make it out of…
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NYPD Releases 1st Bodycam-Recorded Video Showing Officers Shooting Mentally Ill Bronx Man
The New York City Police Department has just made public its first-ever recorded video of a police shooting. The footage shows officers opening fire on a mentally ill Bronx, N.Y., man holding a knife after police repeatedly warn him to drop his weapon. According to the New York Daily News, NYPD officers were called to…
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Watch: Police Kill Another Person With Mental Illness, This Time in Ind.
Editor’s note: Warning: The video contains graphic content. On Tuesday, Ricky Ard was fatally shot multiple times by an Indiana police officer. The incident occurred outside a federal courthouse in Evansville after he smashed windows with a baseball bat. The Vanderburgh County coroner reported that Ard was in the midst of a schizophrenic episode and…
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My Strange Addiction to My Strange Addiction: Hold Me
I have family in town. This means that control over my television has been relinquished to whoever gets to it first. Also, my family is my mother, and if Momma wants to watch a show, Momma is going to watch a show. It’s why I’m currently watching all of the court shows on television and…
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Dirty, Pretty Things
Often, after an intense therapy appointment, instead of sitting in my car, folded across the steering wheel before I have the strength to face the rest of the day, I make a detour to the T.J. Maxx on the way home. I don’t always buy anything; I just wander the racks and flip through organized…