We must do better by people suffering from mental illness

We must do better by people suffering from mental illness
David Cornwell’s guest commentary (“Let’s not treat mental illness like a joke,” AC-T, Oct. 31) was a searing indictment of how our society treats people with brain disorders. Mental illness is one of the few disorders whose treatment has changed little in the past 30 years. There have been some new medications, but no major breakthroughs. Funding remains woefully inadequate, and the stigma of …

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