18. It’s Not All in Your Mind, with Rhea M. Baskerville

The Pennsylvania Project

It’s Not All in Your Mind

Ken’s guest is Rhea M. Baskerville, an outspoken mental health advocate and a member of the National Alliance for Mental Illness, engaged in a candid conversation about the challenges of life with a mental disorder. Hear first-hand examples coming from the viewpoint of the other side of a stereotypically-misunderstood situation. Then there are the listener-submitted questions about copycat legislation, taxes (again), and an overture about medical freedom.

What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is the restriction of medical freedom in Pennsylvania

Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Ariel Vaknin of the Drexel University Toastmasters

Found in this episode:

What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:02:40-00:00:15:20

• Copycat legislation
• Medical freedom

A Conversation with Rhea M. Baskerville 00:17:30-00:00:45:00

• Life bi-polar – What’s that mean?
• Mental “illness” – The myths and the realities
• Situational or medical?
• All about coming out of the closet – but not in the usual sense!

What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? Restricting Medical Freedom 00:47:00-00:57:00

• Vaccines: Optional or mandatory?
• Right to Try? Or Right to Die?
• California shows what happens when religious exemptions are threatened
• Irv Homer’s Laetrile crusade

More Information:

Guests:

Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
National Alliance on Mental Illness: https://www.nami.org/
Copycat legislation: https://whyy.org/articles/pa-lawmaker-cited-by-national-investigation-defends-role-as-copycat-legislator/

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