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Photography Gallery: Faces of Mental Illness
Modesto Bee/CHCF Center for Health ReportingEveryone pictured in this 12-person photo gallery has a mental illness. They live in this community. A daughter. An uncle. A sister. A friend. A neighbor. A co-worker. They are us. Photography by Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting. More…
Normalizing Mental Illness: One Mom's Hope
Modesto Bee/CHCF Center for Health ReportingJoyce Plis directs the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Modesto, California. She's a hero to sick people who have nowhere else to turn. Her son Eric, 46, has schizophrenia. Photography, audio and production by Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting. More…
Small Dreams: Mental Illness and Primary Care
Modesto Bee/CHCF Center for Health ReportingMatt Freitas, nurse practitioner, treats people with mental illness, including his daughter, who has schizophrenia. The number of patients seeking treatment for mental illness has tripled over the past three years, Freitas says. Photography, audio and production by Lauren M. Whaley, CHCF Center for Health Reporting. More…
Trapped: Mental Illness in America's Prisons
In-Depth Visual JournalismMultimedia photojournalist Jenn Ackerman went inside the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit of Kentucky State Reformatory, the largest mental facility in Kentucky, to show how prison might not be the best place for the mentally ill. She captures a combination of video, audio and photos to tell the stories of the inmates that live there and the guards who watch over them. More…
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