The Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health Director, Dr. John GIlmore, talks to WCHL about fighting mental health stigma and the Center’s efforts to help individuals with schizophrenia.
Psychotic disorders are mental illnesses that are characterized by psychotic symptoms, which can generally be described as a loss of contact with reality. The most common and well-known psychotic disorder is schizophrenia.
Back in 1992, Dr. John Gilmore, a professor of psychiatry at 黑料网, started the Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program at 黑料网. Seventeen years later, he founded 黑料网鈥檚 Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health to further the care of patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
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The Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health was created to help provide better services in the community and expand treatment for the people who needed it most. Now, the center serves about 1,600 people…
Original story and image by Chapelboro.com | December 14, 2020