DBSA President Sue Bergeson's Mental Health Blog

I was recently catching up on a backlog of reading. I get a lot of journals and magazines in the mail, and when things are busy, I toss them in a pile on a corner of my desk. Recently, the pile was so high it threatened to topple over onto my little dog, Cassie. (Cassie is sometimes in the of...

I'm writing after seeing my doctor and just being tired of the lack of quality I'm seeing ... and what I've seen when I've been to other doctors as well.    A few years ago, the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM) created quite a stir when it released something called the Qual...

A few weeks ago, the health care liaison from Senator Dick Durbin's office called me indicating they were having a hard time making headway with a bill called "The MOTHER's Act." It had been introduced in 2007 on Mother's Day, in honor of a woman named Melanie Blocker-Stokes, to create more f...

Whenever two or more psychiatrists are gathered together...they complain about treatment adherence. What is adherence? It's the extent to which consumers stay on a treatment plan or take a medication routinely. It seems I cannot be in a meeting of psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nur...

Over the years that I've served as CEO of DBSA, many of you have expressed your frustration and concern with the way consumers of mental health services are portrayed in the media. Why are we always the axe murderers and thugs? What about the millions of us who do good things in the world? &n...