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Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder When she heard about the Newtown shooting her first thought was What if my son does that someday She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy which the Boise State University online journal published as I Am Adam Lanzas Mother The post went viral receiving million Facebook likes nearly tweets and emailsNow in The Price of Silence she takes a devastating look at how we address mental illness especially in children who are funneled through a system of education mental healthcare and juvenile detention that leads far too often to prison In the end she asks one central question If theres a poster child for cancer why cant there be one for mental illness The answer stigma She is speaking in a way that we cannot help but hear and she wont stop until something changes.