The list of people invited to testify today does not include anyone diagnosed as being mentally ill:
Thomas Insel, M.D., Director, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Harold Koplewicz, M.D., President, Child Mind Institute
E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., Founder, Treatment Advocacy Center
Michael Welner, M.D., Founder and Chairman, The Forensic Panel
Pete Earley, Writer, parent of a son with mental illness
Pat Milam, parent of a son with mental illness
Liza Long, parent of a son with a mental disorder
Michael Fitzpatrick, MSW, Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness
I see that the noted advocate of involuntary treatment Torrey is included. This does not look promising to me.
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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