Crossroads mental health care dwindles while patient numbers
rise, consumers say    • Meet the support group    • • WHAT:
NAMI Support Group      • WHEN: 6 p.m. Tuesday      • WHERE: St.
Francis Episcopal Church, 3002 Miori Lane      • For more
information, call 361-578-3935.  Lisa B. Stryk has been looking
for a cure all her life.  When it's not her clinical depression,
it's anxiety; when it's not her anxiety, it's her bipolar or
obsessive-compulsive disorder.  This is the life of someone
living with mental illness, and since 1949, the U.S. has
delegated May as a month to recognize and champion the justices
and injustices of these illnesses.  Yet, communities such as
Victoria have not come a long way, she said. The high mental
health stigma and limited funding and resources, such as the
closure of the area's only in-patient psychiatric unit, give the
feeling of backpedaling.  Stryk feels the battle isn't with her
own mental stability, but rather the stability of a community
and nation.  Out with the old  "It