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Margarite Nathe is senior writer for IntraHealth International, a non profit organization based in Chapel Hill, that advocates on behalf of the global health work force.

Nathewrites for the organization’s blog VITALas well focused onhealth, international development and the people who make it happen.

Views expressed here represent those of the author. My withdrawal symptoms had gone on for 2 months and were getting worse, not better, when I was in my mixed episode.

Anyone who has not experienced it does not learn the hell of it.

I have no clue if they should have ever abated.

Type of family members, friends, and coworkers.

a new report, published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, investigates stigma as a significant barrier to care for many individuals with mental illness.

Despite the availability of effective evidencebased treatment, about 40 of individuals with serious mental illness do not receive care and many who begin an intervention won’t complete it. Nonetheless, the fact that mental health care isn’t covered by insurance to really similar extent as medical care, and the fact that mental health research ain’t funded to identical levels as medical research, are two clear indications that stigma targeted at mental illness continues to exist at the structural level. That’s right! Corrigan and colleagues note that stigma often becomes structural when it pervades societal institutions and systems. Where is the American Psychological Association?

Where is NAMI? The actual question is. Particularly since stopping antidepressant meds and tranquilizers can cause extreme and dangerous withdrawal, where are the nation’s mental health advocacy groups? I know that the process should not be nearly as slow or difficult as most people assume. Then again, now its been almost a week since we’ve learned Trump’s appointees, with the Speaker, really do plan to overturn the ADA and kill Medicare, Social Security and Medicare.

In the face of these realities, the report identifies approaches to addressing stigma that can that way where I am now on Total Disability, and still I have had to contact an elected representative to get care, that I had to wait 9 months for. Now please pay attention. Whenever identifying different kinds of stigma types that can prevent individuals from accessing mental health care, in the report, Corrigan and coauthors Benjamin Druss of Emory University and Deborah Perlick of Mount Sinai Hospital in NY synthesize the available scientific literature. Now let me tell you something. Know what guys, I have literally no reason not to take my life, and plenty of really rational reasons to do just that, if I am looking at living another 35 years with zero medical care and zero income. Currently my friend says I can live with her, and my new doctor will continue to treat me.

Advocates for mental illness going to be in front, health advocates of all conditions gonna be out there.

Now I see why Ryan wanted to pass his Families bill to make institutionalization easier!

Results could be devastating if millions have to suddenly stop taking these meds. I spent more time doing best in order to get and keep hospital insurance and continue getting medication than I did looking for a job. While unemployed I lost it twice, I live in a state where Medicaid was not expanded, I had Obamacare. Did you know that the desire to avoid public stigma causes individuals to drop out of treatment or avoid it entirely for fear of being associated with negative stereotypes. Public stigma may also influence the beliefs and behaviors of those closest to individuals with mental illness, including friends, family, and care providers.