“Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.”
Pete Earley“Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.”
Pete Earley“Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.”
Pete Earley“The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.”
Pete Earley, Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness