![]() There are many reasons for this, but it is due in large part to my being involved in mental health advocacy for over 20 years, the last two or so specifically on behalf of our brother. My four sisters, whom I love dearly, handled his death much differently than I did. I wrote my essays “ Mental Hell-Care: My Sibling’s Story” and “Making the Transition to Compassionate Care” for Mad in America to journal parts of my brother’s unnecessary suffering and premature death in our very broken mental health care system. Len had been in ill health for years, greatly exacerbated by the psychiatric treatments he’d been subjected to. ![]() On May 6, 2021, my brother, Leonard Casciano, died suddenly of a massive heart attack. ![]()
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