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Link – After daughter’s suicide, grieving parents denounce gaps in access to mental health care
This story is an example of a whole bunch of things that are lacking. Was it the insurance company’s inability to provide more intense treatment options at fault? Was the lack of providers to provide that treatment without long wait times? Was it the 55% of mental health providers who’ve given up on dealing with…
Sharing – Mental Health Leveled Up in 2024
Those are good things. Properly dealing with the mental health crisis will require more research, tools, and treatment resources. These don’t grow overnight; achieving them takes years of hard work, so any progress is good news.Â
However, I agree with Time that the incoming Presidential Administration has not indicated a preference for continuing this work with research funding, new drug and therapy approvals, or respect for the science. That puts our progress at risk.Â
Link – Children of alcoholic parents calling helpline to hear bedtime stories
First off, this is incredibly sad. There’s no other way to react to this story. Secondly, this also illustrates just what a problem the world currently has with addiction. There are far, far too many people self-medicating because they cannot get any other form of help, whether that is because of a lack of available…
Link – 10 Staggering Stats That Prove Mental Illness Affects Everyone
“A mental health condition isn’t a singular problem that one person experiences. A loss in earnings due to a mental health disorder can impact a spouse. Death by suicide related to mental illness can devastate a family. Mental health disorders have a ripple effect on the individual and their loved ones, coworkers or even an…
Daily Mail Mistaken CSA ID General Features
The Daily Mail published and updated its view on the mistaken identification of the wrong politician in the North Wales child abuse scandal last Friday, updating it on Monday 12th November. That article is here. This first article from last week was not the hatchet job on Stephen Messham implied by one of the Independent on Sunday’s articles linked…
New E-Zine – Light and Shadow
@Thriver mentioned this on Twitter today, and I thought I would pass it along. It’s the premeire issue of an e-zine called Light and Shadow. Light and Shadow is a quarterly e-zine which focuses on moving beyond psych labels, psych diagnosis and mental health stigma. There is a whole lot of stuff packed into the…
