From Friday's Times Argus

Don't marginalize mentally ill

April 18, 2008

The desire to assign blame for the abysmal failure of those ostensibly involved in attempting to formulate a plan to address the pressing care needs of persons in Vermont with chronic mental illness is fervent, but likely fruitless.

It is clear from the fact that the Vermont State Hospital, with its dismal, antiquated environs and over-worked staff, continueing to limp along with no concrete plan in motion to replace or improve it, that those responsible are impervious to the fact that their gross inaction serves to perpetuate the historic, insidious and intolerable marginalization of people with serious mental illness in our society.

L. Gans

Montpelier