Maine’s mental health system is failing families and taxpayers

By: Bobbi McCarthy

Outlets: Maine Morning Star

Published: May 13, 2026

Words: 605

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. But for Maine families living alongside severe mental illness, awareness is not enough. We need action, accountability, and reform.

I am a nurse and a professor. More importantly, I am a mother.

Our adult son lives with schizoaffective disorder, causing paranoia, hallucinations, delusions, and profound instability. Compounding his illness is anosognosia, a neurologically rooted condition that prevents him from recognizing he is sick at all. He does not refuse …

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