![Patty Duke and Her Life and Trials [Video]](https://guardianlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/5327438690_d008f27e81_z.jpg "Patty Duke")
Academy Award winner Patty Duke passed away early on the morning of Tuesday, March 29, 2016. She won an Oscar for her performance as Helen Keller in the 1962 film, The Miracle Worker. Her life was filled with constant trials, yet she lived an abundant life. She died at the age of 69. In a statement made by Mitchell […]
A Oklahoma insurance company denied coverage to a mentally ill young woman. Kari Dove’s 19 year-old daughter was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her mid teens. The disease is characterized with extreme mood shifts. As her daughter got older she began experimenting with drugs and alcohol, which led to her abusing the substance. This caused […]
In today’s society, mental illness receives and bad rap. After all, for centuries, and most likely even further in the past, the notion of mental illness was seen to be a taboo subject. In times before, it was even discredited by doctors and society as a whole. The term “crazy” was the label for people […]