Pete Earley

"Thinking back 40 years, then 20 years, then 10, progress has been made. Very slowly perhaps, but surely." NAMI Advocate Bob Carolla reports on NAMI convention. peteearley.com/2019/07/01/lon…

"I was dumbfounded to learn the American system was so complicated and ostracizing for families." An Australian mental health worker compares services after US relative dies. peteearley.com/2019/06/26/an-…

Fight over state hospital vs community care funding. Meanwhile, patients being housed in prison - treated like convicts - because no beds are available in New Hampshire. peteearley.com/2019/04/09/new…

The average wait time at a hospital ER for a non-life threatening emergency was three to four hours. The wait time for someone with a non-life threatening mental illness was three to four days! peteearley.com/2019/04/05/wai…

Can gene testing help determine what medications might work the best for you - eliminating the need for endless and dangerous "try-this, no-try this" prescribing? peteearley.com/2019/04/01/usi…

Minds on the Edge lets you hear a Nobel Prize laureate, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, an ethicist, Author Elyn Saks, Dr. Fred Frese and others grapple with a fictional scenario that is too familiar for many of us. peteearley.com/2019/03/29/inv…

"How do you advocate when the world sees a bum, and you see the little boy you carried in your womb, nursed at your breast, laughed and played with...the world’s greatest child is lost and trying to be found." Dede Ranahan. peteearley.com/2019/03/26/sha…

Is the medial condition known as anosognosia (commonly referred to as a ‘lack of insight’ ) applicable to serious mental illness? peteearley.com/2019/03/22/vid…

You're giving fodder to the anti psychiatric fringe. What's happening on that federal panel you're on? Georgia didn't have the largest state hospital. Readers respond to my blog. peteearley.com/2019/03/18/com…

Thousands of Georgians were shipped to Milledgeville...with little more of a label than funny...Children were confined to metal cages; adults were forced to take steam baths and cold showers, confined in straitjackets.. peteearley.com/2019/03/15/the…

Andrew was hospitalized at least six times for two-four day stays. Treatment was inconsistent, the diagnosis changed, from Bipolar to depression to Schizoaffective back to bipolar to... peteearley.com/2019/03/11/a-v…

New research suggests a parasite may be a “contributing causal factor for schizophrenia.” Cats and mental illnesses? peteearley.com/2019/03/08/new…

Georgia jail gets accredited as mental health treatment facility. This is not progress. It is capitulating. peteearley.com/2019/03/04/ano…

Doctor writes: "the brunt of the money raised from such efforts should be spent on finding a cure rather than trying to combat the stigma." peteearley.com/2019/03/01/wan…

"They only keep patients as long as Medicare will pay for their stay" before "discharging them as ‘stable’." John "would always leave these private hospitals more manic than he was when he went in." Sister reports. peteearley.com/2019/02/25/joh…

A new report says Virginia inmate with serious mental illness fell into a "vicious cycle" before he died. "He refused medication and treatments due to his mental illness, then his mental state deteriorated because he wasn’t taking his medication." peteearley.com/2019/02/21/bla…

Mental Illnesses and Marijuana. "If there is an association with using legalized marijuana, shouldn’t the public be warned?" D. J. Jaffe asks. peteearley.com/2019/02/19/leg…

New book: "I am often asked, both in person and online, about the benefits of bipolar disorder. There aren't any...All of the amazing things that define us as people are exactly what bipolar disorder is trying to take away." peteearley.com/2019/02/12/ben…

Virginia politicians are in trouble for wearing “blackface” which invokes our racist and painful history. Whenever outrage about such behavior gains national attention, I think about everyday slights I hear, read or see that disparage individuals... peteearley.com/2019/02/08/wea…