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I read an attorney’s response on the comments section of PJ Tatler. He said it was against the ethics code of the attorneys for an a schizophrenic or person who is ‘intellectually disabled to practice law.
He obviously hasn’t been dealing with the attorneys I’ve come up against while trying to settle an insurance claim for my condo association on Hurricane Ike from Sept. 2008.
The amount of, I'll be kind and call it "misinformation," in the general public about these disorders is what makes having them such a challenge.
A lot of famous people had or have mental illness, for example: Abe Lincoln (major depression), his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln had Schizophrenia, Winston Churchill (BiPolar). John Forbes Nash Jr (Nobel Prize in Mathematics - the movie Beautiful Mind is based on him) - Schizophrenia, Michael Phelps (ADHD), Jimmy Peirsall, Boston Red Sox (BiPolar), Edgar Allen Poe (BiPolar), Meera Popkin, Broadway star of CATS, Schizophrenia, Theodore Roosevelt (BiPolar), Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), Ted Turner (BiPolar - yeah, I know), Ludwig Van Beethoven (BiPolar), Jean-Claude Van Damme (BiPolar), Sol Wachtler, Chief Judge NY Court of Appeals (BiPolar), Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac (Schizophrenia), Patty Duke (BiPolar), Sid Barrett of Pink Floyd (Schizophrenia). Lastly, Jim Vilanucci, the top rated talk show host in New Mexico (77 KKOB) suffers from BiPolar. In fact I have had Jim as a guest speaker in a 12-week family education course I teach through NAMI.
My point is, people with brain disorders have an illness like diabetes or heart disease, it's just that their illlness, through no fault of their own, happens to affect the brain. In many (maybe even most) cases, if properly treated, these people can lead fairly normal, productive lives. They deserve our compassion.