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Seeing Beyond the Label: Jordan Neely, Mental Illness & Compassion
Jordan Neely’s story in Man in the Mirror by Anand Giridharadas shows how quickly mental illness and homelessness become a label that shuts the door on compassion. I don’t know what it is to live without a home. I do know mental illness: I’ve lived with severe bipolar for over thirty years, including debilitating psychosis in the early years of my diagnosis. I share why I understand some of the behavior we so often fear, and three small ways to practice compassion, even when we don’t understand.
I’m not here to discuss the trial or its outcome. Jordan Neely was fourteen when his mother was…
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