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Voices Behind The Vote: Mental Health Brings Single Mom To The Polls
31. October 2014
For a few NM Gas Co. employees, TECO’s search for synergies means pink slips
31. October 2014
Northern New Mexico writer Juan Estevan Arellano dead at 67
29. October 2014
Lack of Mental Health Treatment, Facilities Has Consequences for Families like Mine
29. October 2014
Several years ago, my teenage son, out of the blue, began exhibiting signs of mental illness. It was a cruel twist that most families don’t expect, but what followed the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, was the deepest cut of all. It was the Kafkaesque search for psychiatrists, and for treatment programs and facilities that would provide a sense of safety and a hope of recovery.
I called every psychiatrist in the phone book and couldn’t get him seen. I called my friend Nancy Jo Archer, then director of Hogares. She got Neil an evaluation, a treatment plan, a community support worker, a therapist, and a psychiatrist all available through her agency. Both Neil and I felt hopeful. But then Neil lost his therapist when Hogares was taken over by an Arizona company in the summer of 2013...
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