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Your journey to health and healing

Written on 5 Oct, 2012 in Discovered, Featured | 6 comments

EDITORS NOTE: Gary E Foresman MD will be providing a bi-weekly column answering your health and holistic healing questions. By Gary E Foresman MD So often I am asked “What is Middle Path Medicine?” Questions usually follow, inquiring why my... (Continue reading)

Cambria man charged with murdering his brother

Written on 29 Sep, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff deputies filed charges on Friday against a mentally ill Cambria man suspected of killing his 20-year-old brother on Aug. 23. On Aug. 26, after discovering Tyler Daniel Hanks’s body at the northern edge of the... (Continue reading)

Cambria murder suspect sought help for mental illness

Written on 4 Sep, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 22 comments

By KAREN VELIE Brandon Henslee, 22, tried to get help for his mental illness more than a year ago. Today, he sits in jail accused of killing his younger brother late last month. Henslee became the sixth mentally ill person... (Continue reading)

SLO County Board of Supervisors should implement Laura’s Law

Written on 23 Apr, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 3 comments

OPINION By DJ JAFFE The murder of 61-year-old Earlene Grove by her mentally ill daughter Sunni Jackson, in Paso Robles most likely wouldn’t have happened if the San Luis Obispo Board of Supervisors had implemented Laura’s Law. Laura’s Law allows... (Continue reading)

Violence increasing at California state mental hospitals

Written on 16 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

Assaults by patients at California’s state mental hospitals have escalated and confinements times have increased while  a costly federal effort to reduce heavy drugging and improper restraining failed to improve care and help patients control violent impulses. [LATimes] In 2006,... (Continue reading)

Kafkaesque nightmare at county mental health facility

Written on 16 Feb, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 58 comments

San Luis Obispo County's claim that it is not responsible for the brutal attacks of women at its mental health facility on Johnson Avenue was thrown out by a judge on Feb. 8. Superior Court Judge Dodie Harman ruled against the... (Continue reading)

Christmas Day murderer ruled legally insane

Written on 7 Feb, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 24 comments

A San Luis Obispo County Superior Court judge ruled that Andrew Downs was legally insane when he shot and killed two sisters in Santa Margarita on Christmas Day in 2010. [Tribune] During Downs’ trial, doctors for both the defense and... (Continue reading)

If it takes a village–then you better build a hut for the therapist

Written on 8 Apr, 2010 in Opinion | 8 comments

By RACHEL LYNN SCHERZ Children need therapy.  Teenagers need therapy. There I said it.  For so long, I’ve shied away from such bold and finite statements. But after years of working in elementary, middle, and high schools, being a nanny, ... (Continue reading)