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Dealing with Special Challenges People with Mental Illness and Other Special Needs Mark Willis, Dayton Metro Library We’re used to all kinds of people visiting our library and after awhile it takes a lot to rattle us. Those customers who show signs of mental illness are still confusing and upsetting even to some of the toughest library veterans. What do you say to someone who is wandering around holding an animated conversation with no one? Or to the person who insists the government is using the library to collect his fingerprints? We want to keep control in our libraries and people with bizarre behaviors threaten that control. It is possible to work with most behaviors in a way that allows our library to function yet still permits the patron with mental illness to use the facility. Recognizing that we will likely encounter people with mental illnesses at our library, here are some reasonable goals: 1. Increase our understanding of mental illness. “Mental illness” is a broad term used to cover a variety of afflictions where a person’s thinking differs significantly from other people. This means that their illnesses are significant enough to interfere with employment, attendance at school or daily life. The symptoms and illness vary almost as widely as physical illnesses. According to the American Psychiatric Association, up to 50 million Americans – more than 22 percent – suffer from a clearly diagnosable mental disorder in any given year, Alcohol/drug abuse Plain old stress Intermittent Explosive Disorder (road rage) 2. Learn effective methods of communicating with mentally ill people who are creating a disturbance in the library. 3. Protect staff and patrons in rare instances of possible violence. The people we have to concern ourselves with are those who are not getting treatment, the treatment is not successful, have quit taking their medication or for some reason cannot control the