PsychForce Report

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

1 month ago | robwipond.substack.com | Rob Wipond

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1 month ago | robwipond.substack.com | Rob Wipond

Here, a roundup of some of the more important or interesting news reports on involuntary commitment from November of 2024 to March of 2025. I loosely grouped them and frequently bolded the key issue in each, so as to help you scan for what you’re most interested in.

1 month ago | robwipond.substack.com | Rob Wipond

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