“When you ask patients about this experience, most of them will tell you that after a few minutes of some hesitation, they even forget that they are talking to the doctor via this monitor,” Saeed, the chairman of the psychiatry department at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, says.” Read the Full[…]
“Mentally ill Americans who have nowhere to go and find little sympathy from those around them often tumble into a de facto mental health system, made up of emergency rooms, county jails and city streets. The lucky ones find homes with family. The unlucky ones show up in the morgue.” Read the Full Article
“I think it is just the way it will encourage people to share and just be open and not hide it anymore. The more you hide it, the harder it gets to survive it. Brene Brown writes about how shame can’t survive empathy because the more you talk about it, the more you tackle it.[…]
“Our school has a very tolerant atmosphere, and it even has a depression awareness group, so this response seemed uncharacteristic. We were surprised that the administration and the adults who advocated for mental health awareness were the ones standing in the way of it. By telling us that students could not talk openly about their[…]
“High school students in the tiny New England town of Ledyard, Connecticut, population 14,687, for six years have been competing in an essay contest called “Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness.” The project got started when two Ledyard high school health teachers teamed up with the leader of a local mental health support group to[…]
“There are plenty of members of Congress who would rather do something in mental health than on guns. Groups that may oppose mental-health legislation have less traction than the gun lobby.” Read the Full Article Source: Yahoo News
“There is a huge stigma surrounding mental illness and the mental health system is for the most part, a joke. People are dying through suicide; at times because others are uneducated about illnesses that affect such a large number of the population.” Read the Full Article Source: Indpendent.ie
“I’ve been troubled by commentators who seem to think that taking gun control and misogyny seriously means dismissing the role of mental illness in this crime. Too many people on twitter claim that discussing mental illness “derails” conversations about guns and misogyny, call the issue a “red herring,” or flatly state “It’s not about mental[…]