Mental Health Advocacy: We See It In The News

Hospitals are working to bring those wait times down.

She did live reports for CNN including an interview with Anderson Cooper, while stranded.

Megan covered Super Storm Sandy when it struck the New York City area, and was trapped by flood waters in Tropical Storm Irene. Here is a fundamental paradigm shift and people are slow to change, the shift in thinking can only be changed if the person receiving And so it’s willing to make the change.

Worldwide So there’s more empathy for a broken finger than a dysfunctional mind, now this spans the entire scope of mental illness from severe autism and schizophrenia to mild depression.

Women’s Liberation, the Civil Rights Movement, and more recently the LGBT Movement all of which for some it was a matter of life and death, This can be directly associated with. By process of elimination they are the ones most deeply affecting that individual, the worst problem you may have should be nothing to me, and mine may seem trivial to you. A well-known fact that is. Unless you can tell what’s going on in someone else’s mind from the outside you can not imagine the pain inside or how hard they might be fighting just to breath in and out, people call them cowards for taking the easy way out. Fact, Robin Williams, but most of us know that there are tens of thousands more that we don’t hear about lonely ordinary people who quietly take their for a while being that they can not take for awhileer, we see it in the news.

Changing people’s minds about mental illness is a matter of life and death, mental illness does not play favorites, anyone can suffer from it, and people are dying every day.

Aside from eliminating the stigma, we need a change in the care and treatment of mental health, the system is a reactive one only when a big problem has surfaced do we try to treat it.

More proactive, wellness, and healthy living approach is understood to improve problems before they become serious, quite a few who suffer do not make it that far, or add stress to the overburdened health care system, and the economy causing increased emergency room visits, chronic physical health problems and more. Not treating the illness or its causes, quite a few mental health care providers express frustration and concern over limited treatment policies aimed at eliminating the immediate danger and current symptoms. Now pay attention please. Government and private industry policy create roadblocks to developing the kind of care system that will eliminate many deaths, build a welladjusted, more productive society that will cost less to maintain.