So important to get Mental Illness recognized and treated as the genuine disease that it is!
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Anonymous
7 years ago
Sarah Folster
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Brianna Featherston
7 years ago
Brianna Featherston
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Marcia Barrick
7 years ago
Marcia Barrick
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Isabella Torres
7 years ago
Isabella Torres
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David Brown
7 years ago
My wife and I lost our daughter to suicide last year when she could not get proper care for her mental illness. Not only are we neglecting the care early and seriously but we are not investing in research and development and early intervention. You would not wait until you are on your death bed to get treatment for cancer but we push people suffering from mental illness to the brink feeding them drugs that can lead them to despair and more and more turn to suicide.
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Maisha Rebecca Weinstein
7 years ago
Early intervention not only minimizes impact but in some cases may even prevent the onset of some mental health diagnosis
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Kerry Bremhorst
7 years ago
As an MFT in training, I've come to value the process of early intervention and how critical it is for real change!
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Annie Collins
7 years ago
early intervention in mental health matters!
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Anisa gjermeni
7 years ago
Anisa
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Krystina Eals
7 years ago
My 14 year old son has attempted suicide three times in the last year and a half. After continued rapid and steady deterioration we were able to get him admitted into a residential mental health facility. Less than a week after flying him out of state the insurance company decided that it was unnecessary. Since he had not attempted suicide within the last week . . . It has been 10 days since his last attempt. . . they want to send him home. Tell me, how do we save our loved ones if coverage is denied? The facility costs $4,000 per week without coverage. It shouldn't be this hard to get help.
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Vanessa Rice
7 years ago
My daughter took her life 6 years ago, she was bi-polar and schizophrenia. She had been in the mental ward for 2 whole days, the day after she was released she took her life. Leaving behind 3 children and a very broken hearted family. I believe my daughter she not have been released when she was and that maybe just maybe she would still be with us today. Now my granddaughter (of my other daughter) is 14, has been given the same diagnosis. My granddaughter has been in out the mental hospital several times. The last time she was in the hospital was about 3 weeks ago, my daughter and her husband ask the doctor about committing her to a longer term mental facility. The doctor told them “No, she needs to learn how to cope and give the pills time to start working”. My granddaughter is back in hospital, she has told her parents and doctors how she has thought of ways to take her life. She hears voice all of the time and is tired of all it, she wants it all to end. My daughter and son in-law cannot afford the cost of this kind of care, without the doctor saying, yes to placing my granddaughter into a mental facility to get the care and protection she needs, insurance will not pay. Both my daughter and son in-law work, and there other children in the household. If insurance does not pay for the care my granddaughter, so desperately needs, it will come out of my daughter and son in-laws pocket. It is nobody fault this young lady is sick. As mother and grandmother I want to voice the importance of mental illness awareness. I do not want to lose another family member due to this disease. I wonder how a person is to receive adequate care, if the cost is so high. At this time a person should not have to be concerned with the cost, our primary concern should be the best treatment possible and to try to prevent suicide.
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Alan Holmes
7 years ago
My wife suffers from PTSD,Bipolar,ADHd,and Schizo effective.She is an amazing woman that has been enduring this all her life.For 18 years,I have watched her endure stigma we are in this for the long haul for supporting all who suffer
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Jocelyn Pitts
7 years ago
Jocelyn Pitts
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Paula Richards
7 years ago
Paula Richards
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Kimberly Poston
7 years ago
Kimberly Poston
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Dakota Marrow
7 years ago
I suffer from mental illness and being denied so many services i got tired of not being heard. Time we end the stigma together. It is time we stop being unheard and begin to all be heard. Join my fight at www.facebook.com/sendingbigwaves. As i start and will continue to help the unheard be heard in the fight to end the stigma around Mental Illness
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Erin Holiday
8 years ago
Mental Health is just as important as Physical Health! Why should it be treated any different? we need to stand together and END THE STIGMA!
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Christy P
8 years ago
Mental health is becoming an area that needs drastic help and attention. I am very interested in being a part of the change that MUST happen.
Jenna Woychick
So important to get Mental Illness recognized and treated as the genuine disease that it is!
Sarah Folster
Brianna Featherston
Marcia Barrick
Isabella Torres
My wife and I lost our daughter to suicide last year when she could not get proper care for her mental illness. Not only are we neglecting the care early and seriously but we are not investing in research and development and early intervention. You would not wait until you are on your death bed to get treatment for cancer but we push people suffering from mental illness to the brink feeding them drugs that can lead them to despair and more and more turn to suicide.
Early intervention not only minimizes impact but in some cases may even prevent the onset of some mental health diagnosis
As an MFT in training, I've come to value the process of early intervention and how critical it is for real change!
early intervention in mental health matters!
Anisa
My 14 year old son has attempted suicide three times in the last year and a half. After continued rapid and steady deterioration we were able to get him admitted into a residential mental health facility. Less than a week after flying him out of state the insurance company decided that it was unnecessary. Since he had not attempted suicide within the last week . . . It has been 10 days since his last attempt. . . they want to send him home. Tell me, how do we save our loved ones if coverage is denied? The facility costs $4,000 per week without coverage. It shouldn't be this hard to get help.
My daughter took her life 6 years ago, she was bi-polar and schizophrenia. She had been in the mental ward for 2 whole days, the day after she was released she took her life. Leaving behind 3 children and a very broken hearted family. I believe my daughter she not have been released when she was and that maybe just maybe she would still be with us today. Now my granddaughter (of my other daughter) is 14, has been given the same diagnosis. My granddaughter has been in out the mental hospital several times. The last time she was in the hospital was about 3 weeks ago, my daughter and her husband ask the doctor about committing her to a longer term mental facility. The doctor told them “No, she needs to learn how to cope and give the pills time to start working”. My granddaughter is back in hospital, she has told her parents and doctors how she has thought of ways to take her life. She hears voice all of the time and is tired of all it, she wants it all to end. My daughter and son in-law cannot afford the cost of this kind of care, without the doctor saying, yes to placing my granddaughter into a mental facility to get the care and protection she needs, insurance will not pay. Both my daughter and son in-law work, and there other children in the household. If insurance does not pay for the care my granddaughter, so desperately needs, it will come out of my daughter and son in-laws pocket. It is nobody fault this young lady is sick. As mother and grandmother I want to voice the importance of mental illness awareness. I do not want to lose another family member due to this disease. I wonder how a person is to receive adequate care, if the cost is so high. At this time a person should not have to be concerned with the cost, our primary concern should be the best treatment possible and to try to prevent suicide.
My wife suffers from PTSD,Bipolar,ADHd,and Schizo effective.She is an amazing woman that has been enduring this all her life.For 18 years,I have watched her endure stigma we are in this for the long haul for supporting all who suffer
Jocelyn Pitts
Paula Richards
Kimberly Poston
I suffer from mental illness and being denied so many services i got tired of not being heard. Time we end the stigma together. It is time we stop being unheard and begin to all be heard. Join my fight at www.facebook.com/sendingbigwaves. As i start and will continue to help the unheard be heard in the fight to end the stigma around Mental Illness
Mental Health is just as important as Physical Health! Why should it be treated any different? we need to stand together and END THE STIGMA!
Mental health is becoming an area that needs drastic help and attention. I am very interested in being a part of the change that MUST happen.