There is a place called Geel, Belgium that's been embracing the mentally ill for over 700, yes seven hundred, years! In fact, generations have considered it an honor and a privilege to host people with mental illness. Scientific & medical researchers, practitioners have studied the results in person to marvel at the successes achieved by a community that chooses to accept people with mental illness vs ostracizing them and/or throwing them away. It is considered a model of psychiatric care and the world's oldest community psychiatric service. What if one day more communities chose to be more compassionate to those of us who are "different"? Just reading about this community made me feel better..for a moment.