Title: Connecting Mental Health and Justice for All | HuffPost
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Wayne Meisel, Contributor
Pastor, father, blogger, idealist. Connecting Mental Health and Justice for All
03/21/2016 02:30 pm ET Updated Mar 20, 2017
Growing up, I didn’t know what “mental health issues” were. I knew of families that had children and siblings who were institutionalized for schizophrenia and other unnamed mental disorders. But the generally held assumption was that if you couldn’t see it (like a broken bone) it must not be all that bad. Depression was what happened when someone was down on their luck. It happened to people who made poor choices or had no friends. It never occurred to me that depression wasn’t something someone could just fix on their own. The first time I heard mental health talked about publically was in 1972. George McGovern had just been nominated by the Democratic Party as presidential candidate. McGovern had chosen Thomas Eagleton to be his Vice President.