Right after reading TJ’s uplifting success story, I learned about this disturbing story: An Australian woman accused of murdering her father and sister was denied psychiatric treatment because of her parents’ Scientology beliefs.
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Psychiatrist Mark Cross said in a report that the woman was diagnosed with a psychotic illness at Bankstown Hospital in late 2006.
Stories like this enrage me–because so many lives could be saved with some basic understanding of mental illness. And they sadden me, too, because so many lives are lost and damaged by the current culture of ignorance.
Let me guess, Tom Cruise is still jumping on Oprah’s couch saying that there is no such thing as a mental disorder.