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  • Alaska must strengthen mental health rights

    Faith Myers and Dorrance Collins|Feb 1, 2016

    I had an Associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education and a job I really liked, an automobile and property. That was all before I became disabled with schizophrenia. Over a five year period I lost everything. I went from being happy to often being humiliated and traumatized in institutions and psychiatric ER’s with no way to complain or effect changes. After getting out of the psychiatric institutions, thousands of dollars were spent treating me for PTSD that was the result of institutional trauma. Here are some stories of my encounters with...