Mental Health Awareness – There Is A Difference

Maybe we must become more aware of those with serious untreated mental illness living on the streets, in our jails and elsewhere who deserve to be treated and to live a dignified life, as it is mental health awareness week.

Nothing for the parents of the mentally ill who suffer almost as much as their children.

We parents carry much of the burden for the care of our ill offspring but we are ignored. Thus, we are often ignored and shunned by the professionals. Nevertheless, the month of May in Canada has in it one week devoted to mental illness awareness and one day devoted to schizophrenia awareness. Normally, so that’s Mental Health Awareness Week. Maybe what it has to say ain’t what we even seek for to hear, and we have the right to know that we have to finally talk about what we really feel so that the health care system is forced to as well. We believe Undoubtedly it’s time for investment in earlier identification and intervention, time to integrate health and behavioral health care and remove barriers to services integration, time to make it possible for peers to be reimbursed by insurers when they work on clinical care teams, time to promote innovation, and time to strengthen the lead federal agency dealing with mental health.We are hopeful that the House and Senate committees that have jurisdiction gonna be marking up the bills soon.

And now here is a question. Need to see more or less of something?

Please send any thoughts and suggestions to me at ewallace@mentalhealthamerica.net.

MHA welcomes your feedback! However, our leadership and staff continue to talk with the sponsors and proponents of mental health reform legislation, and have offered specific recommendations for improving both the House and Senate proposals by incorporating provisions of both together. On p of that, our message is identical.

MHA continues to urge Congress to move mental health reform as the system is broken, not because of any specific headlines. Check the conference website.

Register now and take advantage of our Early Bird rates and save big! You can get familiar with the agenda, register and secure your hotel room at a special, limited time rate at the Hilton Mark Center. Please welcome Ann Mendez, new Executive Director of MHA of ‘Charlottesville Albemarle’ and Trisha Kajimura, new Executive Director of MHA of Hawaii!! Also, he might be in Clearwater, FL on February 17 for the MHCA Winter Quarter Conference and in Missouri after February for the Missouri Mental Health Rally at the State Capitol with MHA of Eastern Missouri. Nonetheless, will hit the road again shortly, paul has been in the office a great amount this month. One group is raising awareness of another important cause, as men account for three to four times the actual number of suicides of as women. Basically, we often think of prostate cancer or testicular cancer, when we think of Men’s Health Week. We are failing to highlight our abysmal record on providing treatment and resources to those who suffer from serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression and identical illnesses, while we spend the first week of May celebrating and raising awareness around Mental Health.