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And so it is with the chapter of my life that was North Carolina Mental Hope. Having more or less closed shop several years back, this May 6, 2015, postscript is added as a bit of closure for me personally and so that visitors who might stumble upon the site will know it is no longer a viable organization. The site’s being kept online as a museum of sorts, a glimpse into the mayhem that was – and as of this point in time, still is – North Carolina’s mental health system, an oxymoron that has no equal in the
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It is now 2014. The articles, talking heads and opinion pieces on current mental health issues are spilling over from 2013. You’ve seen them on the evening news and in the newspapers all talking about what’s wrong with the system, what theoretically can work, what we need to do or stop doing. The verbiage goes on. Of course, this is not a bad thing; it keeps the issues and dialogues out front. However, there continues to be a wide gap in much of these conversations because they have produced little in the w