How Can We Better Help the Mentally Ill?

Living with a dangerously mentally ill person, a harrowing personal testimony in Wonkette. As we debate guns, we also need to think harder about how we can accelerate the development of drugs to treat the mentally ill - and how we can change the legal regime to ensure and require that those who need such drugs are made to take them.

To this day my mom and I are convinced that the reason Jesse hanged himself was to protect us and my little brother. He didn’t want to give in and harm us. My mom sees him as Christlike, in fact. I don’t think she’s far off.

H/T Tom Doran