Judge, Two Law Profs Decide Mental Illness Should not Be a Secret

From the ABA Journal:

Two law professors and a judge whose lives have been touched by mental illness are joining to fight the stigma surrounding psychiatric diagnoses.

One of the law professors, Elyn Saks of the University of Southern California, has written a book about her struggle with schizophrenia, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. The other, James Jones of the University of Louisville, suffers from bipolar disorder and has written articles about it in two publications.

The judge, Susan Gibson, contacted Jones after reading his articles. She told the Courier-Journal her husband, a prosecutor, committed suicide because he feared seeking treatment for depression would ruin him professionally. Both law professors also feared that revealing their mental health problems would hurt their careers.