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Mental Health Information

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts) Tue Sep 2, 2014, 05:50 PM Sep 2014

Mentally ill suffer in sick health system. [View all]

PART 1: Nowhere to go
As states eliminate services for the mentally ill, many fall through the cracks, landing in emergency rooms, jails, city streets or the morgue. States cut $5 billion from mental health services from 2009 to 2012, along with 10% of psychiatric hospital beds.
40% of people with severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, received no treatment in the past year.

A USATODAY exploration into "Cost of not caring: Stigma set in stone"

http://www.usatoday.com/longform/news/nation/2014/06/25/stigma-of-mental-illness/9875351/

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Mentally ill suffer in sick health system. [View all] HereSince1628 Sep 2014 OP

It just gets worse and worse and worse. cbayer Sep 2014 #1

I feel most hopeless in the presence of stigma related to "activist privilege" HereSince1628 Sep 2014 #2

Can you give me an example of what you mean? cbayer Sep 2014 #3

Oh it's like yesterday HereSince1628 Sep 2014 #4

I understand what you are saying. cbayer Sep 2014 #5