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Prevention Update, and NIMH Talk

This week we're working on making higher priority information more available on the home page - so we've updated the home page to highlight the "Prevent Schizoprenia" information. Our goal with this information is to help all the families that have already suffered with at least one person who has schizophrenia - to not have to suffer with this disease in future generations.

Had a conversation with some researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health this morning. While they do great things - I get unbelievably frustrated at how slow they move. The sense of urgency is near Zero it seems with many of the NIMH folks (Not all I'm sure).

People are suffering from schizophrenia all around us, being jailed constantly - and they seem like there is no urgency at all. I've almost always worked in companies where there is intense enthusiasm for the company's goals and objectives (usually smaller companies) - and people work hard to move things forward very quickly. Whenever I interact with government agencies I always feel like I've suddenly been put into slow motion. Its extremely sad in the case of schizophrenia - because this is such an important area (the research, and the delivery of services) and the people that end up paying (literally and figuratively) are the people who have the disease, and their families.

I love what the NIMH does and stands for - but I wish they'd stop acting like my Grandmother, and get off their butts and treat schizophrenia like the urgent, deadly, devastating disease that it is.