National Resource Center-Psychiatric Advance Directives provides step-by-step information to enable consumers, clinicians and family draft mental health advance directives consistent with the consumers' wishes should an acute psychiatric crisis occur.  New York State law recognizes PADs.  The legal requirements vary state by state, so it is important to know your state's specific requirements and conform your document accordingly.  www.nrc-pad.org. Another website to consult is www.nami.org (National Alliance on Mental Illness).

My reading list: Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Chopin in Paris by Tad Szulc. Recently finished Come from Nowhere by Ellen Greenfield.