Thanks to all who travelled to this meeting and made our pitch, each with your own voice! Let it not be forgotten that the "patients" in the insane asylums known as Libya, Egypt and other abusively ruled states gathered forces and changed their regimes through social media and activism, and this will continue to be an extraordinarily powerful means for government change of the future. (I know it is not easy.) IOM has heard our message. Now what it will take is their courage and honesty. If they fail and produce solely a politically driven, compromised product, their work will be met with scrutiny, publicity and ever more action until we finally have a clinical definition and research program which suits our illness.
And speaking of "suits", I can't resist the metaphor of clothes. All the old, government-produced definitions are like ill-fitting, hand-me-down clothes, a grab bag at the church rummage sale for the indigent of our town. Yet all we are asking for are clothes which actually fit. The design has already been made, it just needs to go into full production mode.
Hey this is a funny idea for a future demonstration. We could wear very ill fitting clothing to "model" the un"suit"ability of our definitions.