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The film won a documentary award at the Chicago International Film Festival.

The event begins at 5 p.m., March 30 in the Oak Park Public Library Veterans Room, and the film will be followed by a discussion with representatives from Community Care Options, Family Service Mental Health Center of Oak Park & River Forest, National Alliance of the Mentally Ill (NAMI)-West Suburban, Parenthesis Parent-Child Center, and Thresholds West Suburbs.

Admission is free, but you can call Thresholds, 386-0399, or the Community Mental Health Board, 383-8005, to reserve tickets.

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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b and depression, walked away from his tight-knit family's home near Pape Ave.

and O'Connor Dr.

around 1 p.m.

on March 21.

There's been no trace of him since and that is unusual for Milosevic, who controlled his illness with medication.

He may have some of his pills with him but his family isn't sure.

He left his wallet and all his identification and money at home.

His brother said the family is close and Milosevic would not hesitate to call them if he needed help and was thinking clearly.

Bojan is worried his brother may be disoriented and confused, as well as cold and hungry.

"He likes coffee shops and patios.

They're his favourite place to be, especially when the weather's nice," he said.

Milosevic is white, 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds, with shoulder-length brown hair and a goatee.

He was wearing a green sweatshirt, blue track pants and grey running shoes when he disappeared.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-5400 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS.

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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b to manic depression to antisocial personality disorder, among others.Some patients have “co-occurring” disorders, meaning they suffer from at least one serious illness coupled with a history of substance abuse.Depending on their diagnosis and their level of social and mental function, patients are divided into treatment wards such as “Social Learning” and “Psychiatric Rehabilitation.”They undergo regular therapy in individual and group settings, and engage in daily treatment exercises tailored to their individual behavioral history and rate of progress.

All patients have one thing in common, however.Because Biggs is a “forensic” mental health center, all of its patients have - at some point - committed a crime, some as serious as rape or homicide.“They're not in there for snatching little old ladies' purses,” one SA said.

“We get the worst of the worst.Some clients were put on trial and judged ‘not guilty by reason of insanity.' Others were never subjected to trial because they were deemed mentally unfit.Some were first committed to minimum-security mental-health facilities at FSH's Hearnes facility or elsewhere statewide, but proved dangerous and unmanageable in that environment.Other clients originally were sentenced to a term in a Missouri prison, but were transferred to FSH after demonstrating signs of mental illness such as hallucinations or other delusions.Of all staffers, the 245...