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Liza Long is the mom of a child with an undiagnosed mental disorder. When she found out about the filming at Sandy Hook Elementary University in Newtown, Connecticut, her first thought was, "Imagine if my son will that someday?" She wrote an emotional respond to the tragedy, that your Boise State College or university online journal uploaded as "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother". The post gone viral, obtaining 1.2 million Facebook prefers, almost 17,000 tweets, and 30,000 e-mails. Now, in The Price of Silence she takes a devastating look at how we address mental condition, especially in children, who are funneled through something of education, mental health care, and juvenile detention that leads far too often to jail. In the end she asks one central question: If which poster child for tumor, why can't there be one for mental condition? The answer: the stigma. Liza Long is speaking in a manner that we can not help but notice, and she won't stop until something changes.