A global mental health crisis is upon us, with America facing a stark paradox: high prevalence with poor outcomes and lack of support. Simplistic fixes are futile against this complex reality. To genuinely improve American well-being, government officials (and the rest of us) must transcend narrow approaches, grasp the global and national scope of this crisis, and invest in comprehensive support, not decimate already insufficient services under the guise of saving money. The complex, interconnected factors driving this deterioration defy simplistic, reductionist solutions, new ways of seeing and engaging our individual and collective mental health and wellbeing are required.
Thanks, Phil. I keep wondering what we build while we work to protect what limited resources are out there for mental health (or currently budgeted). I agree that it's time to transcend those narrow approaches!
Thanks for fighting the good fight. My old job at community mental health receives funding from these programs. This will be lethal for clients and affect my beloved former coworkers’ livelihoods. Devastating
Last time I checked, Congress controlled what got funded because we don’t have kings in this country. Republican Congress is only ok with using EOs for this because then they can’t be held accountable for voting in these kinds of egregious cuts.
"The message? Mental health is still being treated as optional - a nice to have - not an essential. The sad consequence is that we’ll all pay the price."
Very bad news for the U.S. This is what comes from an electing a President who lives in his own fairy tale universe, completely unaffected by the concerns and demands of even his own constituents, and who makes sure to draft for every position related to him those who also live in their own private fairy tales to augment his own.
Ironically, if those people are not walking advertisements for the damaging effects of mental illness, I don't know who else could possibly be so.
A global mental health crisis is upon us, with America facing a stark paradox: high prevalence with poor outcomes and lack of support. Simplistic fixes are futile against this complex reality. To genuinely improve American well-being, government officials (and the rest of us) must transcend narrow approaches, grasp the global and national scope of this crisis, and invest in comprehensive support, not decimate already insufficient services under the guise of saving money. The complex, interconnected factors driving this deterioration defy simplistic, reductionist solutions, new ways of seeing and engaging our individual and collective mental health and wellbeing are required.
Thanks, Phil. I keep wondering what we build while we work to protect what limited resources are out there for mental health (or currently budgeted). I agree that it's time to transcend those narrow approaches!
Thanks for fighting the good fight. My old job at community mental health receives funding from these programs. This will be lethal for clients and affect my beloved former coworkers’ livelihoods. Devastating
Last time I checked, Congress controlled what got funded because we don’t have kings in this country. Republican Congress is only ok with using EOs for this because then they can’t be held accountable for voting in these kinds of egregious cuts.
"The message? Mental health is still being treated as optional - a nice to have - not an essential. The sad consequence is that we’ll all pay the price."
Very bad news for the U.S. This is what comes from an electing a President who lives in his own fairy tale universe, completely unaffected by the concerns and demands of even his own constituents, and who makes sure to draft for every position related to him those who also live in their own private fairy tales to augment his own.
Ironically, if those people are not walking advertisements for the damaging effects of mental illness, I don't know who else could possibly be so.