And you’re also expanding into family care?

And you’re also expanding into family care?
Yes, we have a couple of families that are involved in this now already. We’re starting to provide both treatment services and psycho-education services. If somebody comes home from war and you have a physical wound, you can see the problem, right? There’s evidence of a problem. For people with mental illness, other than the behavior, there’s no evidence of it and so it could be really difficult to believe it’s real. As crazy as that sounds, it’s like 'Hey, just stop drinking. Stop acting out. Be rational.' You know we’ve all dealt with people with different levels of mental illness, whether it’s substance abuse, irrational behavior, rage or depression. All of us have a family member or a loved one, and you sort of just want to say, 'come on, just snap out of it!' But there’s actual, real, physical neurobiological issues going on, and so one of the things we do is educate families about what’s happening to their loved one so that it’s more palpable and understandable. [Photo via]
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