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Sharing – Lack of Access to Mental Health Treatment Reduces Lifetime Income
Look, we know that untreated mental health issues impact people’s lives in many ways. Would the lack of treatment at 20 for bipolar make a huge difference in lifetime income? Of course, it would impact the ability to even finish college successfully and that would then continue to impact things significantly. Would the need to take leaves of absence or go to work every day with depression and no access to help for that cause you to be less successful? Again, statistically, I think that would be obvious that it happens more times than not.
Link – Global Mental Health Report Cites ‘Pitifully Small’ Support, Looks For Solutions
I like the wording from the authors on this. The longer we go without doing much more than make some small changes to the way we view mental health issues across the world, the more we really are ignoring millions of our fellow human beings: Threaded throughout the 45-page report is a lament that the…
FCC Looking at Three Digit Number for National Suicide Helpline
Let’s hope this gets approved quickly, and makes it possible to have an easy to remember number for anyone to reach out during a crisis quickly. The need has already been demonstrated with the current number: Once implemented, people will just need to dial 988 to seek help. Currently, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline…
Sharing – If Republicans Were Serious About Addressing Mental Health, This Is What They’d Do
The article breaks the steps into two large buckets, and I’m going to ask you to consider these when you stop to consider whether your state, local, or federal representatives are actually doing something to improve the state of mental health care.
Are they doing something to make it easier to pay for mental health care services?
Are they doing something to make it easier to find mental health services?If they’re not doing either of these things, or worse, cutting funding and services, they are not actually interested in improving the mental health situation in the US.
Sharing – Suicide rate keeps rising among young Americans
The increase is startling. “In actual numbers, the suicide rate among 10- to 24-year-olds jumped from about 7 per 100,000 in 2007 to nearly 11 per 100,000 in 2018, according to the National Vital Statistics Report published Sept. 11.” Note that this is all pre-2020, so we can’t blame this on pandemic, or anything else…
