More NAMI Papers

 I will have more to say on NAMI, mental health issues, later, but now, with the arrival of more pressing current events, I must say "Adieu" to this topic for a while.  Needless to say, NAMI will not publish my NAMI Papers--they're too adult, too literate, lack the facile breeziness, of typical NAMI writings, which are written at a 6th-to-8th-grade level.  A pandering to the lowest common denominator, a level I refuse to stoop to!  NAMI also has important other faults, which I hope to bring up--its lack of serious programs and support for mental health consumers themselves; its incessant fund-raising, with nothing to show for all the money raised; its built-in classism, pandering to those who are "caregivers," i.e., who can afford to support a "mentally ill" adult child without income or very little income, and who has no job or only a part-time one, and support such a child not merely in his/her 20s, but also 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond; the eagerness with it takes money from state Departments of Mental Health, the Psychiatric Establishment, and Big Pharma, all of them leading culprits in the mediocrity and crisis in psychiatry we see today; and NAMI's generally facile and saccharine outlook, so exemplified by the condescending behaviors and non-responses of NAMI officials themselves, from the national office all the way down to the Executive Directors of Indianapolis and Indiana NAMI chapters themselves.