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The Price of Silence
The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness | Liza Long
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Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder. When she heard about the Newtown shooting, her first thought was, What if my son does that someday? She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy, which the Boise State University online journal published as I Am Adam Lanza's Mother. 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 cant 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.
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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness | Liza Long
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The author of this book was my English lit teacher in college. She was easily my favorite teacher I've ever had, but I had no idea she wrote a book! She actually gave it to my mom when she found out how much we struggle with my sister's mental illness. I'm really excited to see what she has to say on the matter.

Also, I am going to try a book journal for 2021. What are some pages I should include other than just what I've read?

RainyDayReading I usually try to keep track of how many books I read were owned, how many were from the library and what format. This year I‘m adding tracking to see what amount of books I read by female authors vs male authors etc. 3y
GingerAntics I track fiction, nonfiction, Shakespeare, and Poetry. Then I track gender of author(s), and since June I‘ve tracked white, black, indigenous, non-black POC, and whether or not the author was LGBTQ+. I have quite the statistics list going from this year that I‘m posting tomorrow after I finish my last book of 2020. 3y
GingerAntics I remember reading her essay after Sandy Hook. I never knew she wrote a book. This sounds really interesting. 3y
Rachel.Rencher @GingerAntics I didn't know she wrote an essay. I just looked it up. I was 16 when Sandy Hook happened, but I also wrote an essay about it that a different professor of mine published. I think I'm going to email her after I read this bc I'm surprised she never brought it up in class. 3y
GingerAntics @Rachel.Rencher it caused a big stir in the parenting community, especially among parents of mentally ill children. Apparently some lawmakers also contacted her after she published to find out how they could help families like hers. The courts also took away her younger children for a year, so maybe she didn‘t want to talk about it. It may have been too fresh. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 3y
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This was a good book about the difficulties of finding mental health help for children. It was informative and enjoyable, though overstated at times.

Nittnut I liked it too. Probably the hyperbole stemmed partly from her frustration at the situation, which I related to somewhat. 7y
the_hibernator @Nittnut I'm sure that's exactly where the hyperbole stemmed from. I can't imagine how frustrating the broken system must be for her. Though I'm guessing it also came from her experience living in Idaho. That's a lot different than living in Minnesota. I live in a "welfare state." 7y
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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness | Liza Long
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Need I say more?

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I'm skeptical that an insurance company would actually say this - they might THINK it, but they'd come up with a better excuse than "there's no point in hospitalization because she is unlikely to get better." This, and some other exaggerations make me feel that this will be a book to read with a sizable grain of salt. Too bad, since the topic is so important.

bmsddk Thanks for posting about this book. Are there others about this subject matter you prefer? 8y
the_hibernator @bmsddk Well, I'm not far into Price of Silence yet, so my comments so far are preliminary. It's good enough that I want to keep reading, certainly. As for other books, I've read Crazy, by Pete Early, and it was fantastic. I have not read, but will probably pick up, American Psychosis, by E Fuller Torrey. I might even do that this month if I have time. Nonfiction November! 😁
[tagged book]Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
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bmsddk Thanks! Curious to know how it continues ☺ 8y
Bookzombie 💕🐱 8y
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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness | Liza Long
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How can it be that we as a society can't find the funds for young children to get effective behavioral treatment, for overwhelmed parents to get respite, for enough effective residential treatment facilities for children who are a danger to themselves or others, but we can spend over $200,000 a year to incarcerate them when they are teenagers or adults?

geodynamical_nonfiction This reminds me of the Adam Ruins Everything episode on homelessness. An organization found out that it was cheaper for the state to straight up buy a house for a homeless person than to deal all the continued hospital bills, drug treatment, court, food, career development, etc. Once housed, everything took care of itself and people got on their feet with ease. Let me know if this book talks about cider analysis 8y
geodynamical_nonfiction Cost. Not cider. 😛 8y
the_hibernator @geodynamical I will! 😁 But I don't imagine it discusses that aspect of cost analysis, since this is a book about the mental health system for youths specifically. I don't imagine it'll do much more than discuss cost of juvenile detention vs. residential treatment programs. 8y
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Except for the as-of-yet unchosen book for the #SJBookClub I've compiled my #NonfictionNovember TBR pile. Now if only I can find a nice #NonfictionNovember challenge to participate in - the one I intended on joining is on hiatus apparently. 😭

charl08 I'm a fan of Neurotribes. Hope your NF challenge goes well. 8y
the_hibernator @charl08 Thanks Charlotte! 8y
susanw I'm liking this idea of non fiction November. 8y
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Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness | Liza Long
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Just finishing The Fifth Child and wondering if I should pick up The Price of Silence as a companion nonfiction. Anybody read it? @BookishFeminist you seem to have knowledge about books about mental illness. Know anything about this one?

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