Reply To: My Two Moms

The email address is not my personal email address so it passed.

ronrsr: yeah. i know what you mean. the 70’s was when the issue of mental illness being destigmatized was first raised. in 1972, geraldo rivera broke the story about the Willowbrook State School (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School for those of you who dont know what im talking about)

geraldo essentially lit the spark for the acceptance of the mentally ill and those with Down’s Syndrome. but even so…mental illness has been stigamtized heavily despite all teh ettempts to reverse that stigma.

part 2 is gonna be educational…part 3 may be a little controversial 😛