John Nutting

That's all right.

Well, I used to be a dairy farmer slash state legislator.

Looking back, I don't know how I did both, but I was young and so was my wife.

And the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Maine Supreme Court, years ago told me, said if a family tells me that there's no brain disorders in their family, I know they're lying because it's biological.

It's in every family.

And that's one of the points we're trying to make here in Maine is that if you have a disorder of any part of your body, it goes without saying that you're going to treat that disorder.

The same should be true for the brain.

Absolutely.

And we've got millions of families torn apart by this subject nationwide and all the homelessness and in jails and hospitals over and over and over again because one particular group has this debate raging across the country that, well, it's their right to be psychotic, right to be bipolar.

And that just assures that they're not going to have any successes and may hurt somebody else or may hurt themselves.

It's just so unnecessary.

The levels of melatonin and serotonin in their brains are not normal.

Especially some of the now newer medications help to restore those without as many side effects as previous medications.

Some progress is being made there so that they can go on and start to have some successes in their lives.

Well, it's called the Progressive Treatment Plan.

I was a sponsor of it as a state senator way back in 2003.

We've made some progress, but I have to admit that it's been a 23-year battle to try to get the original law

implemented as it was written.

We're still not there yet.

We've made progress.