Former patients protest psychiatrist convention

It was a challenge to get the label rip started Saturday. So many “psychiatric survivors” were milling around outside the Convention Center that it was hard to get them to pick one of the big cards printed with names of mental illnesses.

Special Report: Mental health care breaking down in Stanislaus County

Some are haunted by multiple voices or schizophrenia, others paralyzed by anxiety and depression. But there's one thing these mentally ill adults in Stanislaus County share — they often have nowhere to turn for treatment. In this three-day series, The Modesto Bee and the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting examine this growing and paralyzing problem. For video, stories ...