The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness

The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness

Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder. When she heard about the Newtown shooting, her first thought was, â€œWhat if my son does that someday?â€ She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy, which the Boise State University online journal published as â€œI Am Adam Lanza's Mother.â€ The post went viral, receiving 1.2 million Facebook likes, nearly 17,000 tweets, and 30,000 emails.

Now, in The Price of Silence, she takes a devastating look at how we address mental illness, especially in children, who are funneled through a system of education, mental healthcare, and juvenile detention that leads far too often to prison. In the end she asks one central question: If there's a poster child for cancer, why canâ€™t there be one for mental illness? The answer: stigma. She is speaking in a way that we cannot help but hear, and she won't stop until something changes.
Country USA
Manufacturer Avery
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-08-28
Format Kindle eBook

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