“Walker reveals struggles with mental disorder in just-released book”

   Before you read this, I wanted to let you know that I do realize this isn’t specific to Pennsylvania, but for me it’s rather personal in that I happen to have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), and I found it inspiring to know that someone was a successful athlete and in many ways a public [...]

“New psychiatric care centers lack wide-open spaces of Mayview”

 

New psychiatric care centers lack wide-open spaces of Mayview
Monday, April 14, 2008
By Joe Fahy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

For local residents who need lengthy psychiatric care, the most likely option is no longer Mayview State Hospital, but a locked unit at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
Patients who might have strolled alone around Mayview’s aging buildings and spacious grounds [...]