Inky,
Your life isn't over, you just have challenges to overcome. I sure wish you luck and adiquit help with them.

I think the criminal neglect that goes on in the US mental health system comes from a lack of accountability. Privatization opens it up to numerous quacks and cuts to funding, which also is limited or cut due to the same lack of accountability for getting results and following patients to make sure 'results' are gotten. We are left to teach ourselves how to heal ourselves, and at the mercy of any snake oil and religion salesman that comes along to fleece us in our desperate times.

The recent story about the gross neglect of out patients at Walter Reed hospital is the tip of the iceberg in both the veterans care system, the general healthcare system and especially the general mental health system in this country.
A general shake up is needed to include the mass firings of those responsible for setting up and defending this shameful state of affairs, and by that I mean those in washington and the state capitals, and the heads of the petty fiefdoms at local public and private clinics, churches, web sites, etc. across the board.
~Down