After reading Sandra Gentry’s account of her daughter’s mental illness in the Dec. 3 Sentinel, Ronald Baldwin offered to share with readers about his personal experience with mental illness. Having covered the Dade County Jail’s perspective and a family member’s perspective on the issue, we hoped to cover a patient’s perspective, and Baldwin made that possible.
Hearing from medical professionals who work with mental patients would help complete the picture, but that’s an article for the future.
Unlike Gentry’s daughter and many of the accounts from the sheriff’s office, Baldwin knows that he needs to be on medication and voluntarily takes his meds. He has been a patient at Bridge Health for 25 years…