Losing his first decent job ever seemed like too much for Joe Holt to live with. It was time. Patsy deserves for me to be trying.” The idea remains controversial: managing a severe mental illness is more complicated than simply avoiding certain behaviors. Lonnie Joseph Holt grew up an orphan. Joe was 3. But the staff kept the Holt children apart, records show. Losing his first decent job seemed like too much for Joe Holt to live with. It was time. In recent years, researchers have begun talking about mental health care in the same way addiction specialists speak of recovery - the lifelong journey of self-treatment and discipline that guides substance abuse programs.
People like Joe Holt are succeeding. A survivor's guide. First among Holt's many resources is his wife, who has been an effective at-home therapist - in part, because she does not consider mental illness an adequate excuse to shirk responsibilities. Voice at the restaurant, Working at a health clinic in Kansas City, he needed more income and job security, not less. Loudly." How many times had he falsely accused people, Patsy especially? Hundreds? Thousands? "It explained so much," Patsy Holt said in an interview.