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Some people need help to get help: a personal reflection on the value of assisted outpatient treatment.(PERSPECTIVES)

Publication: Behavioral Healthcare
Publication Date: 01-MAR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Editor's note: Assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) stirs the passions of people in the mental healthcare field like few other issues. Behavioral Healthcare invited Kurt Entsminger to share his views on AOT because he not only was recently appointed executive director of the Treatment Advocacy...

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...Center, which supports AOT, but he also is a mental healthcare consumer.

We want to hear from you as well. Send your letters to dedwards@vendomegrp.com, or comment on Mr. Entsminger's article online at www.behavioral.net.

I understand firsthand the difference that effective treatment can make in allowing someone with a severe mental illness to function normally again. I have bipolar disorder, like approximately 2.3 million Americans (almost 1% of the U.S. population). When my mental illness was untreated, it affected me, my family, my job, and those around me.

Like many people with bipolar disorder, I was first diagnosed with depression. Eventually that diagnosis was changed to bipolar disorder. I was an attorney, a litigator, which requires a great deal of focus and energy. It was not unusual for me to go weeks at a time with minimal sleep when I was going through a manic...

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