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People tell me I'm a mom on a mission. I am on a mission. We have to make the case for effective, compassionate care for those with serious mental illness (SMI) and to do that we have to tell our stories. ADIDAS PERFORMANCE BARRICADE COURT W TENNISSCHUHE SNEAKER weissMens 3mm Formal Style Neoprene Wetsuit Jump Surf SCUBA Diving Dive Wet SuitStories about tragedies that could have been prevented. Stories about the need for beds and housing. Stories about outrageous HIPAA laws that prevent us from helping those we love. Stories about our missing and homeless children and mothers and fathers. Stories about our sons and daughters in jails and prisons and solitary confinement without treatment. And on and on...

We have to do this. Nothing else is working. Not healthcare. Not government. Not prisons. Everything's fraught with hidden agendas, bureaucratic incompetence, and self-interest. Or lack of interest.Head Comp G XL Pyramid V Racquetball & Ektelon Power Ring Freak Racquetball LOT.Stiga Energy Wood WRB Table Tennis BladeHead Sprint VC 2.0 Junior - Kinder Outdoor Tennisschuhe - blue - 275218.

I hear many of you in the SMI community say, "So much has happened I could write a book." I believe you could write a book. Why not warm up here? Let's move our stories out of closed Facebook groups and anonymous support groups into mainstream discourse. Asics Gel Game 7 GS Ragazza pinkNew Smoke White arena Swimming GoggleANTI-FOG AGL-180M FINA 2015 JAPAN F S J8199Let's bombard the public/legislators with accounts they won't be able to ignore. Let's make change happen. Sooner than tomorrow...NOVITA' - MATASSA PRO XTREME BABOLAT 1,25 mt. 200.

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BLOG 2: MY DIARY

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Finalist: 2016 San Francisco Writer's Conference Memoir Contest
Finalist: 2016 Writer's Digest Writing Competition
Finalist: 2017 New Millennium Writings 43rd Literary Awards Competition: Nonfiction

To read the Introduction, click on "My Diary" in the Navigation bar above. 

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For Patrick and his sisters,
Megan, Marisa, and Kerry.
And for the mothers.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason.
And those of us who are mothers know it's the most
exquisite love of all.
 Maggie Gallagher

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I had no idea, as I was writing my diary (June 15, 2013 — June 15, 2014) that I was capturing the last year of my son’s life. Pat died, unexpectedly, on July 23, 2014, on a hospital psych ward. Suddenly, my diary morphed into a more poignant record than I’d anticipated and, after he died, I discovered Pat had been making regular posts on Facebook. I decided to add his comments to my own.
One day, you know it will be your turn. Something alters your projection. There’s a major shift and then events will be referenced as “before” or “after.” Your life as it was versus the way it is now. In Sooner Than Tomorrow, I learn — right along with the reader — what will happen next. We’re all on a journey. Thank you for going on this journey with me.”
— Dede Ranahan