The seven blog entries below are all contributions on mental health/mental illness issues originally asked for by Indianapolis NAMI, the leading mental health advocacy organization in the U.S., which, unfortunately, is not as effective an advocate on behalf of mental health consumers as is needed. These articles were submitted to national NAMI for publication, and were all rejected, I think because they were just too damn good for NAMI's low-middlebrow standards. What NAMI wants, unfortunately, are breezy, facile, feel-good articles that are essentially akin to the non-professional writer contributions to the Reader's Digest, leavened with a good dose of the superficial Power of Positive Thinking "philosophy" associated with Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller. However, as an extensively published actual writer and poet, including at the national level, I was not about to lower my standards to produce for NAMI such superficial, breezy pabulum. Yet, my articles below definitely deserve publication, as any judicious reader will plainly see. Hence, I have posted them on my "Politically Incorrect Leftist" blog in hopes of their finding the wider readership they deserve.
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