Mental Health in the U.S.
Limited mental health resources
Shame
Stigma to diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems
Lack of Education
High percentage of incarcerated men and women struggles with mental illness
Broken mental health system
Portrayal of mental illness make people reluctant to seek help and continue therapy onced diagnosed
Limited information on what treating mental illness looks like.
Mental health stories are hidden and not shared
Can not decide if people with mental health problems should be treated like other people
People with mental health issues are lower class
Media portrays
People should control their mental illness
People with mental health problems are dangerous
Media representations have driven a misleading skewed and overly negative view of mental illness
People who do not control their mental illness are week
People suffering from mental health issues should be locked away
Largest provider for mental health care in American is jails and prisons
Lack of support for mental evaluation and treatment and issues are neglected – leading to crisis that can include people getting hurt
Lack of reentry support
Need more vested in mental health outreach
Plagued with barriers to equal access and treatment
No enough residential centers for people with mental health
Focus is on treating a medical disease and not a person as a whole
Leads to poverty, homelessness
Poverty, homelessness
Separate from normal community members
Jail is not a medical facility
Belief is people are not more than their mental health
Society wants a fix method and would rather not deal with people with mental health problems
Employers do not want to hire people with mental health problems
Viewed as unreliable
People with mental health issues are monsters and criminals
Lack of Governmental support and funding
Increased chance of returning to jail
Broken mental health system
Circle of insanity - continue same treatment and expect different results.
Real world is not as simple as movies portray
10 times more likely to be victimized
Complicated interrelationship with other influences
Upbringing
Genetics
Medical issues
socioeconomic actors
Happy pills give wrong impression
Jail staff not educated on mental health
Need to identify risk factors that contribute to mental illness– identify new markers or environmental issues -early identification
not comfortable stepping forward to ask for help
Social pressure
Labeled forever
Broken mental health system
Complex navigating mental health care
No guidance and hard to get answers
Mental health cost are high
You have to be poor, broke, homeless, destitute, and so psychotic that society can no longer ignore you to get help rather than getting help when you first needed it.
Loss of dignity
Medication is a bandage
Conform to society to follow
Increased depression
Increased suiside
Increased stress
Fragmented mental health support
Much needed support not available
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Mental health clinician shortage
Financial obstacles
Leaving those who most need help behind
Trying to build on a broken foundation
Overwhelming amount of paperwork
High costs for meds and therapy, legal fees
Outrageous debt and limited funds