It's been two and a half years since the Aurora, Colo. theater shooting in which James Holmes allegedly killed 12 people at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
Jury selection for the 2012 incident is scheduled to start Tuesday. One of the reasons why it took so long to get to court was the battle over Holmes' psychiatric evaluations. After the shooting, Colorado legislators approved $20 million to change how people going through a mental health crisis can get help.
The structure of a mental health crisis varies dramatically from person to person. For Colorado resident Cindy Binger, everyday life events suddenly weren't computing.
"When you go through a crisis, you're confused," she says. "You can't distinguish right from wrong. Your thought patterns are off; they don't gather and complete."
More than a decade ago, Binger struggled to make sense of traumatic events that happened in her life. She grappled with deep questions about alcohol abuse. And simpler ones about where to get help.
[For more of this story, written by Grace Hood, go to http://www.npr.org/2015/01/19/...ing-to-mental-crises]
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