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Sharing – How America’s Mental Health Crisis Became This Family’s Worst Nightmare
ByMikeM June 11, 2024June 10, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Most of all, the article clearly shows no easy answers. There isn’t one thing broken in this system that can be quickly turned around and made better. It’s everything: government funding, insurance coverage, a lack of people to treat patients, a confusing and frustrating system to find help, and a system so under-resourced that kids are sent to facilities 5-6 hours away from their parents.

You don’t fix that overnight. You surely don’t fix it by ignoring the system and avoiding talking about serious mental health issues because they make us feel uncomfortable. That’s why people are out here dying instead of getting help.

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Sharing – Almost half of children who go to ER with mental health crisis don’t get the follow-up care they need, study finds
ByMikeM February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

This is a society-wide problem. These kids who can’t get care will likely end up back in crisis, which will continue well into adulthood. We already see this in adults who cannot access care, one ER visit after the other for years.

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Sharing – We’re Increasingly Disconnected and That Has Consequences
ByMikeM September 26, 2022September 25, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

The rest of the article talks about the detrimental impacts of less connection to the people in our lives, our communities, etc., and some ways to help build those back. Things like reaching out, doing more than doom, scrolling your social media feeds, leaving thoughtful comments, interacting with your friends and family, etc.

It’s worth a read. Connectivity is an essential part of maintaining our physical and mental health.

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Youth Mental Health – A Crisis, but Ending Pandemic Rules Won’t End the Crisis
ByMikeM February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 Reading Time: 3 minutes

There’s been a lot of talk about youth mental health during the pandemic, including a number of prominent voices raising the alarm about this crisis. There have been almost as many voices suggesting that ending things like lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, and just getting “back to normal” will fix this mental health crisis.

I am not one of those voices.

Now let me be clear, I’m not saying that the pandemic hasn’t played a number on mental health for all of us, it clearly has. But, the crisis in mental health for everyone, but especially young people, existed long before COVID-19.

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