
Rob Wipond
Writer at PsychForce Report
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2 weeks ago |
robwipond.substack.com | Rob Wipond
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2 weeks ago |
robwipond.substack.com | Rob Wipond
It’s a damning, brutal edition of PsychForce Report TV, as Jesse Mangan and I discuss some of the biggest news stories about involuntary commitment. If you’d prefer to read the article on which these discussions are based, including more news stories not covered in the video, you can read it here.
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1 month ago |
robwipond.substack.com | Rob Wipond
YES defend advocacy organizations from federal budget cuts -- AND maybe we should be asking why for decades they failed to achieve their goals ***when they were funded***? It's a bit like being innocent and locked up in prison and your lawyer keeps getting paid to get you released... and three decades later you are still locked up and suddenly your lawyer starts yelling that their funding just got cut.
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1 month ago |
robwipond.substack.com | Rob Wipond
I started actively working on my new article, published on Saturday in Mad in America, about eight months ago. The story is titled, “The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection & Advocacy Organizations Fulfilling Their Mission?” You can read the story in its entirety by following the link above to the Mad in America website. The United States has politically shifted a lot over those eight months—and kept shifting underneath the story as I worked on it, right up to deadline.
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1 month ago |
madinamerica.com | Rob Wipond
Spurred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been leapfrogging each other in recent years from California and New York to Oregon, Oklahoma, Indiana and beyond.
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