Naught, The EPA's statistic is that approximately 90% (89.3) of the United State's water supply is fit for human consumption, which means essentially non-toxic, those these are federal guidelines, so take them as you will :) That means that about (posted to No Vice Taxes - Why Is Food Policy So Classist?)
Gregory -- you touch on some excellent points here, i think. I think affordibility is quite possibly the first (and maybe biggest) hurdle to better food for the lower/middle classes. While I don't doubt that in some places vegan or (posted to No Vice Taxes - Why Is Food Policy So Classist?)
"no house is safe if it has a gun in it." Well, technically, no house that doesn't have a gun in it is safe either. The illusion of safety is really just most of the time. If another is going (posted to Gloria Steinem's "Organizing Notion")
But see, you're making the most common mistake that people make when talking about mental illness - UNMEDICATED does not mean UNTREATED. I have a very large treatment regime, one that demands a huge amount of my time. I am (posted to The Right to Choose for the Mentally Ill)
Thanks everyone for your comments - a few things I have had running through my head: 1.) A lot has been said about the fear that an unmedicated person with MI would be at risk of harming others. The fear (posted to The Right to Choose for the Mentally Ill)
Oh, but I DO think these people should be held responsible for their behavior and choices. That's why I think it sucks that they either refuse medication, or refuse to believe that they have an illness. It's kind of a (posted to The Right to Choose for the Mentally Ill)
I was diagnosed with ADHD (I know it is not as serious as some mentioned above, but it is diagnosed too quickly) when I was 8 or 9 years old, and was heavily medicated for that and anxiety since before (posted to The Right to Choose for the Mentally Ill)
Those are some really interesting points I never considered. "Client" rather than "patient" really does seem to frame the relationship very differently. My knee-jerk reaction was that referring to myself as a "client" takes away the feeling that I am (posted to The Right to Choose for the Mentally Ill)
this post seemed pretty relevant to my life - i have schizo-affective disorder and have been hospitalized pretty frequently, though not for the past three years which is kind of an improvement. i've had actual delusions and hallucinations (auditory and (posted to The Right to Choose for the Mentally Ill)
You are spot on. We do not herald our right to choose basically because we have no idea that we even have a choice. Perhaps people are highly skeptical and feel that they are warranted to judge you so quickly (posted to The Right to Choose for the Mentally Ill)
