The most gripping and insightful stories of mental illness are those
of people who face it each day. They are the everyday heroes who struggle
to combat their illness, and work toward recovery. This week on The
Infinite Mind, a special presentation, as we feature the remarkable
and courageous stories of four people coping with mental illness, whose
extraordinary lives and work offer hope and inspiration to all of us.
Profiled are: TX State Rep. Garnet Coleman (healthcare advocate and
manic-depressive), Meera Popkin (Broadway actress and schizophrenia
patient), twin sisters Pam Spiro Wagner and Carolyn Spiro (Pam is a
poet with schizophrenia, Carolyn is a psychiatrist).
Boundaries of Sanity and
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File Date: Aug 5, 2003
What are the boundaries, if any, between madness and normality? Host
Dr. Raj Persaud talks to Professor Richard Bentall psychologist and
author of Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature, who
believes that his research shows that we are all mad to varying degrees
and that the fear of madness may be a much bigger problem than madness
itself. Joining in the debate for the side of biological psychiatry
are Dr Peter McKenna, consultant psychiatrist at the Fulbourn Hospital
in Cambridge and Peter Chadwick, lecturer in psychology, Birkbeck College
and author of Schizophrenia: the Positive Perspective.
Family Turns to Facility for Help With Bipolar
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Last September, Morning Edition aired a story about a 9-year-old boy,
Benjamin, with bipolar disorder. His moods and behaviors were unpredictable
and changed rapidly throughout the day, and sometimes he was violent.
Now 10, Ben is living full-time in a psychiatric facility for boys,
where his treatment is designed to moderate his mood swings and teach
him how to manage his own behavior. Michelle Trudeau reports.
