Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

Elyn, you don't really understand

We think there's a future to this.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

Really?

Anders Breivik is merely evil.

And as you can see virtually 30 of all disabilities from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders or neuro psychiatric syndromes.

90 of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable and treatable mental illness at the time of their death.

It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

He's definitely the star of my show.

Do you think you might like to heal from your childhood?

The World Health Organization estimates that there are nearly four to five hundred million people

So would I take the pill? In an instant.

In a couple of minutes, I'll tell you about some of those results.

He might be, aside from a single medical incident that delayed his career

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

Head Case

His real name is David Vincent.

Secondly, drug companies are not going to develop really sophisticated psychoactive drugs.

We need to invest more resources into research and treatment of mental illness.

So, what are the solutions?

We don't know how many kids died last week in any of those countries.

Even in this state, what he accurately described as acutely and forwardly psychotic,

Psychotic episode?

They make up a small percentage of the population, but they make up a large percentage of the people in jail, the people who are addicted, the people who are mentally ill, the people who commit suicide.

What I rather wish to say is that the humanity we all share is more important than the mental illness we may not.

So let me share some final thoughts.

In fact, until very recently, and I'm sure some people still hold it as a view, that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe.

Imagine you stayed there, stuck there, in that narrow, dark place.

What are you anyway? An analyst or a patient?

The mental health of my patients...

The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness.

What might explain the difference in the experience of these two nearly identical men?

18.Rare diseases

It's also a very intellectually stimulating place, and occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Now, when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here, because 90 percent of suicides are related to a mental illness depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anorexia, borderline personality.

Delusions are fixed and false beliefs that aren't responsive to evidence, and hallucinations are false sensory experiences.

We want to make sure that we have normal humans between the ages of 20 to 60, they died a somewhat natural death with no injury to the brain, no history of psychiatric disease, no drugs on board we do a toxicology workup.

Let's take an issue that the last two speakers have both talked about mental illness.

Six months after a five day program, a 45 reduction, in measured serious mental illness.

And now, 14 of the disorders are treatable, two of them actually curable.

That we found out that we could take fuzzy concepts like depression, alcoholism and measure them with rigor.

I think we're looking at some kind of psychosis.

In fact, I've managed to stay clear of hospitals for almost three decades, perhaps my proudest accomplishment.

I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed with that view.