if someone presents with active schizophrenia, that may take a different kind of treatment strategy in addition to the substance abuse - focused treatment strategy. so we need a knowledgeable system. we need a system that allows funding for the services. we need to have a system that essentially has a one-stop shop or, as mark pointed out, every door being the right door so that a person doesn't have to do what josh said, is go to different places on different days and he wakes up, says, "what day is it because if it's tuesday i go to substance abuse, if it's wednesday i go to my psychiatrist," and that is obviously problematic. he was obviously motivated but there's a limit to motivation. at our program in community psychiatry, it's a mental health program but we-all of our staff members are social workers and nurse psychotherapists are all cross - trained in addictions and mental health. and in order to implement that it's actually mandatory training for them that they must attend, like, two hours of training that we have every single month. and so we educate them about how to detect

these are very severe cases of bipolar or schizophrenia. to go through an aot program to qualify for laura's law, you have to have a very serious problem. i will give you some of the qualifications. you have to have a lack of compliance which has revealed serious violent behavior within the past 48 months or required hospitalization at least twice within the past 36 months. one example of this is the woman who, as awful as it is, the woman who threw her three children off of the bridge two years ago. she has said, her family has said that they were trying to get her help, and there was no avenue to get her the kind of help that she needed. she had been hospitalized five times. she would have qualified for a program under laura's law. in the state of california, and k as dr.atxz, as -- dr. katz has mentioned, i do not know if we want to go out there and medicate people in a mandatory way, as many people would like you to believe but lauara's -- laura's law is like. an aot program much like our behavioral quirk program can be put in place bef

support group, and that is open to anyone with schizophrenia in the entire bay area. we get people from the south bay and north bay because there is nothing like it, so i feel i have a good perspective from a lot of different ways. i am gravely concerned about what is happening to our mental health system. i used to really feel proud to work for the san francisco public health system because i came from other community health places, but the priorities in the last two years are concerning me, and i wanted to bring to the attention of all of you that not only are we having these budget cuts that are coming down the pike, but there's another agenda happening, and that is really the dismantling of the mental health system. the focus right now is on primary care and on integrating mental health with primary care, which is a wonderful idea, and we are for that, by we all know that people with serious mental illness do not make it into primary care, and the plan right now that is being rolled out is that they're going to take that into primary care clinics, colorado behavio

nature of some people with schizophrenia. they are totally introverted. i want to read you a few words of his description before showing you a voas a video. in his first paper he talked about 11 children. one of them donald he realized was happiest when he was alone drawing into a shell and living within himself, oblivious to everything around him. donald liked, had a mania for spinning toys. he liked to shake his head from side to side. all of these illustrate some cardinal features of autism. he liked to spin himself around in circles and he had temper tantrums when his routine was disrupted. he also noticed that donald had explosives, seemingly irrelevant use of the words and he referred to himself as the third person and repeated words. let me now quote epilelia. he calculated his own desires by speaking about himself in the third person. so it's this notion of the cardinal symptoms of autism being withdrawn from social contact. not taking part in empathetic play, joint play, mutual attention. looking at people and really

we have expanded with the agency's 22 intervention which helps children to have schizophrenia. -- we're expanding the agency's ability to do intervention. we did you that you would look into funding for these programs and also to help with the violence that the children are experiencing. they described their living situation as living in a war zone. we look to help veterans, we have to realize that we have a war zone in the city and county of san francisco. i am begging you to please look into the funding for these programs. >> thank you. >> and i am chairman of -- in one we are some of the indigenous people from the san francisco area. i was one of the ambassadors

"such labels as schizophrenia are used to report to poor prognosis cases where execute schizophrenia, reactive schizophrenia, are used for the good prognosis cases." and other words, there are many variations of schizophrenia and similar illnesses. these affect patients in different degrees and to varying extents. presidents would not be as accessible as a normal patient to medical personnel. it would be difficult for a psychiatrist to get an understanding of the president's psychological well-being. i believe that there were the three presidents of the united states who suffered from a depressive illness. the president's i'm talking about are franklin pierce, called in coolidge -- calvin coolidge, abraham lincoln. each of them suffered the loss of a young son during his presidency and sometimes under really terrific circumstances. franklin pierce, forcible, was traveling in a row ricard with his wife and with their last surviving child. they had already see two of their sons die. they were traveling to new hampshire with their home in new hampshire and the train became involved in so

this is a 24-year-old african- american male with schizophrenia. that is a severe mental illness. when jason is not taking his medication, he exhibits the following symptoms that lead to his hospitalization. he is paranoid delusions. illusions are fixed, false beliefs. when he is off his medications, he believes he is being poisoned, that his food and water are being poisoned. he will not eat. he is very troubled by this. he thinks that people are out to kill him and that they want to hurt him. this creates a lot of fear and anxiety in jason. he acts aggressively. if someone was trying to poison me, i would be aggressive as well. i would want to protect myself. when jason is on medication, it is a whole different story. when he gets in the hospital and it's on his medication, jason is described by the psychiatrist as pleasant, incapable, enthusiastic, and self- motivated. -- engagemable, enthusiastic, and self-motivated. over the past it appears, has been hospitalized 11 times with an average of two weeks per visit. it usually takes someone about a month to get someone fully relie

that very small percentage of the population that is suffering from schizophrenia or bipolar disease.we have heard from people against it. i have heard many more people in favor of it. the people at the hospital have been very vocal. the director of city-wide case management forensic program, judge morgan runs the behavioral court system. the national association of mental illness. the san francisco police department psychiatric coordinator, the california psychiatric association, this is not something that has been taken lightly. people are not sitting back and saying, why do we not just give this a try? these are people that are very invested in this. we have a great need in san francisco for this. i think that supervisor dufty is on the roster. i would like to give him an opportunity to speak. supervisor dufty: there was an article in sunday's chronicled offered by three psychologists who were on the california psychiatric association reform task force. as physicians, they talk about the fact that given the tendency towards the examples of inappropriate psychiatric treatment, we sh

but it was because of her father she learned about schizophrenia and paranoia. >> sometimes we wouldn't be able to go out because my dad would be so scared for or family that someone was going to attack our family and things like that. >> reporter: the police took him away in a straightjacket. >> i remember when hi dad actually had to leave, like they had to get people to actually taye my dad out of our house, so it was really scary for me. >> reporter: an gee wanted to pity so at school she kept it all a secret. it took a special counsellor for her to tell her story. >> i didn't feel sorry for her and i didn't pity her, i more felt great add any ration for her because see was dealing with such tremendous challenges at home. with all of that she still was feeling congratulate tuesday and optimism and hope. >> that serious student became lighter, sat up straighter, there was a change. >> i felt really good. it just felt like a weight is lifted off and it just, it's all really good. her eyes sparkle more, she has been kind of reluctant. now she is "mr. e what we could try is ..." and it's

people who are diagnosed with schizophrenia, it's not uncommon to hear that they used alcohol because it took the edge off the voices. i used drugs because when i was living with my mother and stepfather, my stepfather used to abuse me, hit me and stuff. that was a relief when i went out and got high and came back in. i didn't care what he would do to me. green door let me learn responsibilities. i could always go to any staff in the building and they will help me if i have a problem. the green door is a saving grace. it helps me to stay out of my head. it keeps me busy in the present. green door first and foremost has made me more willing to address my inner mental illness in full, knowing that the light at the end of the tunnel is just not institutionalization. you get back to where you were before because you had the tools to do it, and you had the people and the resources here to do it as well. there are many people greatly in need of recovery in this country. once as a country we accept the fact that that's true and people start to recover, changes that can be made within familie

must steadily stay focused on the fact that if i have the other paranoia, if i have the other schizophrenia, one of the things that can remain with us after recovery, that i must take a look at those and deal with those on a daily basis. we don't want to go back. i've been over 20 some years now in recovery, which i'm proud of, but i realize that there's some things today in my life which still go on, which resembles me back to... but what did james do? in other words, you got out, and how did you you obviously right now, you have a wonderful model program that i want you to share with us at some point, but tell us how you came out and you said, "i'm going to remake my life?" and what steps did you take in order to-to basically pull yourself out of the whole addiction process and into your recovery? well, let's say this to you, when i came out and i went to my first meeting and i went to my second and third meeting that i was still afraid to come out, outside. i live in new jersey; i was still afraid to cross that bridge back into philadelphia. so i spent most of my first year at home doing

police are asking for help tonight in locating a missing woman who suffers from depression and schizophreniaold beverly welsh coleman disappeared yesterday. she had come to oakland from los angeles to attend a funeral and then vanished from the days inn hotel off hagenberger hotel. >>> one san francisco's most vein rabble restaurants has closed. a note blames the economy. it says that the restaurant will be closed until further notice. it was old time san francisco and the movers and shakers gathered. >>> one of the grill's original owners ed moose died yesterday, the same day the doors closed at the restaurant. aside from owning the grill twice, he also owned and operated moose's restaurant. ed moose was 81-year-old and died after suffering >>> this is a big weekend for giants fans, a chance for the team to take over first place, not going to happen now. >> it is not going to happen. pat dress, they have pretty good pitching, you might say. why is san diego in first place in the national league west and the giants in second? simple. padres won 8 of 9 head-to-head encounters. and there is an

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language of cambodia, to translate for her mom but it was because of her father she learned about schizophrenia and paranoia. >> we couldn't go out because my dad was so scared because someone was going to attack my family and something like that. >> reporter: the police took him away in a straitjacket. >> i remember when my dad actually had to leave, they had to get people to actually take my dad out of my house so it was really scary for me. >> reporter: angie wanted no pity so at school she kept it all a secret t took a special counselor to help her tell her story. >> i didn't feel sorry for her and i didn't pity her. i more felt great admiration for her because she was dealing with such tremendous challenges at home. with all of that she was still feeling gratitude and optimism and hope. >> reporter: that serious student became lighter, head up straighter, there was a change. >> it felt really good. >> her eyes sparkle more. she used to be reluctant. now she is "what we can try is..." it's really fun. >> the whole thing about supporting angie and telling angie that we love her and believe i

. >> i think's a little schizophrenia in the administration on china. i think started trying to coddle favor with china, not moving our sales to taiwan, not seeing the dalai lama and things of that nature. these were terrible mistakes because our chinese friends don't do gratitude. >> rose: (laughs) what do they do? >> they do cold calculations of what they view as national security and we should as well. >> rose: staying with the iran question, will sanctions work? >> well, i think the fact that the president the other day reiterated his call for dialogue with iran is indicative of the fact that the administration believes sanctions are biting, sanctions are starting to take major effect in iran. i think the jury is still out myself. i think the iranians have had plenty of time to work around the sanctions so it's a work in progress. you mentioned the speeches the president gave. he gave one in cairo, you're quite right. it was well received. he gave a wonderful speech in turkey calling for a model partnership but there's been no follow-up to either sp

i think that, you know, if we could figure out how genes influence, say, schizophrenia. how do you generate a hallucination because you have a mutation in some genes? i mean, that's a profound progress from a simple gene and a protein in a synapse to a circuit that's somehow recreating experience that was... that occurred earlier. so i think someday to explain these psychiatric disorders that are very complex but they have genetic underpinnings, so must have variation in the genome is fascinating. >> i'm very interesting in understanding gene environment interactions better and co- opting that to help patients. so we know that, for many of the disorders, it's really about gene/environment interaction. we're born with our genes-- we can't do much about them. but we can do something about our environment. so finding ways to actually modify the function of genes through understanding these external environmental factors, and we know this could help many brain disorders would be fascinating. just like the toxic chemicals; there has got to be good chemicals or good environmen