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Excerpt from Mental Health and the Aging: Forum Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, Washington, DC, July 15, 1993
I would like to just offer you one quote before yielding to this wonderful panel that we have here. I am actually conducting a mini filibuster until Senator Pryor gets here.
And it is one that even Democrats would support, I might add. A very positive filibuster. Vincent Van Gogh once wrote a letter to his brother Theo and he said in that letter, As for me, you must know that I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there were any other choice. What consoles me is that I am beginning to con sider madness as an illness like any other and I accept it as such. Modern science has since confirmed Van Gogh's intuitive under standing of his own disease and the research now shows that many severe mental illnesses are biologically based. They are treatable disorders of the brain, and it is therefore time to put an end to dis criminatory health care coverage policies.
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