Speeches and Testimonies

DBSA Comments in Response to Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Criteria for Evaluating Mental Disorders - Submitted to the Social Security Administration (SSA) on June 16, 2003

DBSA Statement on Fiscal Year 2004 Budget - Submitted on May 23, 2003 to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education

DBSA Statement on Fiscal Year 2002 Budget -  Submitted to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education March 21, 2001.  Published in the Congressional Record, April 24, 2001

Excerpt from "Bipolar Disorder: How Far Have We Really Come?" - presented at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May, 2001

Excerpt from "Barriers to Care" - DBSA 2001 Annual Conference, August, 2001

Excerpt from "Depression: The Unwanted Cotraveler- An Advocates' Perspective"- National Institute of Mental Health Public Day, March, 2001

Excerpt from "The Face of Bipolar Illness"- American Psychiatric Association, May, 2001

Excerpt from "The Use of Surveys as an Advocacy Tool- International Bipolar Conference, June, 2001

Excerpt from "The Use of Placebo in Clinical Trials for Mood Disorders: A Consumer Perspective"- Yale Medical School Department of Psychiatry - Grand Rounds, February, 2001

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