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Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 30, 2022
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Mental Health Awareness Isn’t Enough: More Funding Is Needed
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How Trauma Makes Neurobiological Changes to Your Brain and Body
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Long waiting lists, long drives and costly care hinder many kids’ access to mental health care
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Promoting Safety from Sexual Abuse and Harm in Community Service Organisations
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2022 State of Mental Health Report Shows Shocking Lack of Access to Care
The report is available to download in full, or you can skim some of the statistics. As you do though, pay special attention to the section on Access to Care, where you’ll learn things like the fact that over 27 million people in the US with some sort of mental health issue did not get any treatment. None. Not a bit. Even in the best state for matching treatment with patients, Vermont, almost 43% of people did not get care.
Link – The Stigma in Our Health Care System
I had not realized this before. How many of you have struggled with healthcare because of these kinds of rules? I can see where it would get massively frustrating. I mentioned that my stay had been in B-Med and he just nodded. Psychiatric hospital stays, he said, are never put in general patient records. B-Med…
Louisiana Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs Suicide Prevention Summit
My Father in Law actually sent me a link to this. It’s a suicide prevention summit being held in Sept. in Alexandria, LA. While I realize the readership of this blog might not include many people in the area, I wanted to share it because I think this is an important resource for anyone connected…
Link – Does Your Family Know Your Mental Health Care Preferences?
This is good advice if you think it may be possible that you’ll be in a position where you, or a loved one, may be unable to advocate for yourself. More than half of the U.S. states recognize psychiatric advance directives, legal documents that detail instructions for mental health care when a person is not…
