GG Burns - Advocate

Mother, artist, brain health advocate & activist. Promoting brain diseases to be classified as physical & for national MH reform!

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

@SenDougJones, @SenShelby, @NIMHDirector, @NIMHgov, @HHSGov & @SecAzar, We must continue "New Drug Trials" for Schizophrenia. What if your son or daughter suffered with Schizophrenia and none of the meds available worked? https://t.co/hzDM6Dz9Eu

[TAC @taccommunicate]

In a new paper, we raise warnings about @NIMHgov's deliberate reduction in clinical trials for #schizophrenia.

Write Congress today; demand that @NIMHDirector Gordon reverse course & fund ways to improve treatment for people with serious #mentalillness. https://t.co/5lsnVDv2z4

[Mental Illness Policy Org @MentalIllPolicy]

.@NIMHDirector @NIMHgov Should Not Stop New Drug Trials for Schizophrenia. Write your representative and @HHSGov & @SecAzar [email protected] & [email protected]) and ask them to insist NIMH robustly fund drug trials for schizophrenia. https://t.co/mC3UjAhWf7

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

I agree it is "past time" for the .@ACLU, .@NAMIAdvocacy & .@NAMICommunicate to join efforts to end the deliberate inhumanity against families like mine! Don't tell us to not use the word suffering ... when we are dying. Read the headlines! #EndSuffering4SMI https://t.co/kd9wlo1o4O

[Teresa Pasquini @tcpasquini]

Will @ACLU, @NAMIAdvocacy, and @NAMICommunicate help us #EndSuffering4SMI? It is time to hold #CrucialConversations4SMI with all disability advocates to end the deliberate inhumanity against families like mine. https://t.co/7M39jTxiJl

[NAMI Advocacy @NAMIAdvocacy]

"One of the things that is a goal for me is to bring recovery services and care into the medical setting, both in psychiatric and primary-care settings.” @DrMcCance_Katz of @SAMHSAGov
https://t.co/AfSX7fSrcW #Act4MentalHealth

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

Agree ... we have returned to the days before Dorothea Dix ... barbaric! #StepUp4MentalHealth #StepUp4SMI #ShatteringSilence4SMI https://t.co/jIZ7kzS9XW

[Jeanne Allen Gore @JGoreCruise]

This is outrageous! Would you send someone with Parkinson’s Disease or Alzheimer’s to a prison and solitary confinement? SMI is an illness, not a crime. #StepUp4MentalHealth #StepUp4SMI #ShatteringSilence4SMI https://t.co/QNyGZ5sEhS

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

Without #AOT this is the only way many like my son can access
TREATMENT FOR THEIR BRAIN ILLNESS!!!
#EndIMDExclusion
#OpenMoreCrisisCareOptions
#StepUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI https://t.co/5dMJVJBL79

[TAC @taccommunicate]

Q3: AOT helps break the revolving door, keeping mentally ill people from cycling in and out of jails! #RecoveryNotArrest https://t.co/izIaZ0FIZy

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

Without #AOT this is the only way many like my son can access
TREATMENT FOR THEIR BRAIN ILLNESS!!!
#EndIMDExclusion
#OpenMoreCrisisCareOptions
#StepUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI https://t.co/lnN0EnI3Sd

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

#ABedInstead of a cell
#MentalIllnessIsNotACrime
#StepUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI https://t.co/puS9L1bNdx

[Teresa Pasquini @tcpasquini]

#SteppingUp4SMI @NSSCoalition ���End solitary confinement for those suffering from SMI and SED.” https://t.co/Jew09BIqBb

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

#ABedInstead of a cell
#MentalIllnessIsNotACrime
#StepUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI
#supportaot https://t.co/3B1jAsTL98

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

Thanks @tcpasquini for all your efforts for families like mine. #SteppingUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI and #ShatteringSilence4SMI #SupportAOT https://t.co/BFsCTQ0vL6

[Teresa Pasquini @tcpasquini]

#StepUp4SMI by #ShatteringSilence4SMI-Speak from your broken heart and shatter the silence and the suffering. We must change the practice of failing and jailing people with serious mental illnesses.

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

So true!! #SteppingUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI and #ShatteringSilence4SMI #SupportAOT #abedinstead https://t.co/HR8SwlvY3I

[NSSC @NSSCoalition]

@NSSCoalition Yes! AOT treatment standard needs to be based on NEED FOR TREATMENT and GRAVE DISABILITY, not danger to self or others. Would we have our elders suffering from dementia rise to that standard before we helped them? I think not. #StepUp4SMI #StepUp4MentalHealth https://t.co/1Jz7LYVsQ1

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

Agree, we don't abandon & then jail patients with Demenita and Austism like we do those with brain diseases/SMI. #SteppingUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI and #ShatteringSilence4SMI #SupportAOT https://t.co/9Tn2pl3Smv

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

@NAMIMobile Agree, but we'd have less #stigma if we had treatment for our sons/daughters! Stigma comes from a broken #mentalhealth system of care that abandons our loved ones & puts them in jail instead! #SteppingUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI and #ShatteringSilence4SMI #SupportAOT

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

#SteppingUp4SMI @NSSCoalition “Promote, strengthen and fund Assisted Outpatient Treatment and any other evidence-based pre-incarceration alternatives that permit treatment and care 4 SMI people." #SteppingUp4MH https://t.co/RdkbKX3ZCf

[NSSC @NSSCoalition]

The NSSC is #SteppingUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI and #ShatteringSilence4SMI. #StepUp4MentalHealth #StepUp4SMI
https://t.co/W3s8XiiqbB

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

Was told this after our son refused meds for brain disease he was born with, after being treated successfully through his teens! His rights to say NO has lead us through 12 years of hell. He's now in treatment due to CJS! #StepUp4SMI #StepUp4MentalHealth #ShatteringSilence4SMI https://t.co/oV9AQNhC1j

[NSSC @NSSCoalition]

Have you been told, when calling for help, to have your child arrested so they can get help? The time for change is now! Please join us at https://t.co/dqkT8jfDMz #StepUp4MentalHealth #StepUp4SMI https://t.co/JXqf8w88gd

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

We'd less #stigma if we had treatment for our sons/daughters! Stigma comes from a broken #mentalhealth system of care that abandons our loved ones & puts them in jail instead! #SteppingUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI and #ShatteringSilence4SMI. #StepUp4MentalHealth #StepUp4SMI https://t.co/tjcOO6MULL

[NSSC @NSSCoalition]

"Support evidence-based post-incarceration diversion solutions. Invest in re-entry programs for SMI and SED." #StepUp4MentalHealth #StepUp4SMI. Fund #TreatmentB4Tragedy. End the incarceration of people with SMI/SED and their families who suffer right along with them.

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

We'd have a lot less stigma if we had treatment for our sons/daughters. Stigma comes from a broken system of care that abandons our loved ones & puts them in jail instead! #SteppingUp4MentalHealth by #SteppingUp4SMI and #ShatteringSilence4SMI. #StepUp4MentalHealth #StepUp4SMI https://t.co/nnmLxjjQUV

[NSSC @NSSCoalition]

@NSSCoalition is #SteppingUp4SMI demanding the end to solitary confinement and the #Right2TreatmentB4Tragedy. #StepUp4MentalHealth #StepUp4SMI

[GG Burns - Advocate @AdvocateKy]

Thanks to @DedeRanahan for posting my letter to AG Sessions -- sharing how our lived experiences & #OurReality make his statements impossible. We need a #ABedInstead #ShatteringSilence4SMI https://t.co/fNgmM9idbn

[Dede Ranahan @DedeRanahan]

AN ADVOCATE MOTHER'S LETTER TO AG JEFF SESSIONS by GG Burns
"I am writing in response to the NBC article reporting you stated that communities need an "involuntary commitment" option for the mentally ill." Read more...
https://t.co/ysoAZfY8Pw

[Teresa Pasquini @tcpasquini]

Thank you, GG and Dede for #ShatteringSilence4SMI and for sharing #SoulData4SMI. https://t.co/mBHuSeT83N

[Pete Earley @peteearley]

"Anosognosia (lack of insight) is a reality and for those who suffer with it, kindness may never be enough," TAC... https://t.co/aFnmpFtJcY