The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness

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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness

Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder. When she heard about the Newtown shooting, her first thought was, â€œWhat if my son does that someday?â€ She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy, which the Boise State University online journal published as â€œI Am Adam Lanza's Mother.â€ The post went viral, receiving 1.2 million Facebook likes, nearly 17,000 tweets, and 30,000 emails.

Now, in The Price of Silence, she takes a devastating look at how we address mental illness, especially in children, who are funneled through a system of education, mental healthcare, and juvenile detention that leads far too often to prison. In the end she asks one central question: If there's a poster child for cancer, why canâ€™t there be one for mental illness? The answer: stigma. She is speaking in a way that we cannot help but hear, and she won't stop until something changes.
Country USA
Author Liza Long
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9780698161337
Format Kindle eBook
Label Avery
Manufacturer Avery
NumberOfPages 306
PublicationDate 2014-08-28
Publisher Avery
ReleaseDate 2014-08-28
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Country	USA
Author	Liza Long
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780698161337
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Avery
Manufacturer	Avery
NumberOfPages	306
PublicationDate	2014-08-28
Publisher	Avery
ReleaseDate	2014-08-28
Studio	Avery

The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness

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