Agreed. Raising awareness is a big part of encouraging people to feel safe and ask for help, but if the help isn’t available, it’s not doing any good for them. How do we make sure help is there when necessary?
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So, someone like me, a middle-aged, professional, white male, can talk about struggling and get encouragement, pointed to good resources that are affordable for me, and there’s hope that I’ll get better. Someone living near poverty will say the same thing, and we start looking at whether they should have their kids removed from the home or how we can keep them away from a “safe” society.
It gets worse if they are not white and/or have a more serious mental health issue.
That’s not right. Everyone deserves quality mental health care. We shouldn’t divide who gets the care and who doesn’t based on what kind of mental health issue they have or who they are. That’s no way to solve this issue.
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@SurvivorNetwork I have been saying this will the average joe on the street benefit from this or is it all smoke & mirrors let’s hope not
@SurvivorNetwork it’s easy for celebs etc to stand up and talk about it just hope the funds used to raise awareness isnt wasted
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