Mental

Hi, everyone!

I have decided to make this post about the need for understanding those who have mental illnesses.

I think that this is a serious rights issue. People in America have the right to recieve the care they need. Whether that care is physical, mental, or spirtual shouldn't matter, but it does.

According to healthypeople.gov. Approximately 1 in 4 adults have a mental illness in the United States. In children it is 1 in 5.

That is a serious amount of people being diagnosed. However, how many are left undiagnosed? How many after being diagosed aren't given the proper treatment they need?

Fewer than one-third of adults and one-half of children get diagnosed according to nami.org.

Unfortunetly according to nami.org, racial and ethnic groups are less likely to get the care they need.

It comes down to money. Do you have enough money to pay to get better? It is a sad truth that most people who couldn't afford treatment are undiagnosed anyway.

Teenagers and children in schools with counsleors and psychologists go undiagnosed. Most people say to themsleves 'Oh well, they are just going through a phase. It will pass.' 

That mind set is what has over 50% of studnets with mental illnesses dropping out of high school.

People wonder what's wrong with America. It is a long list, but there is always light at the end of the tunnel.

People are getting treated. Sites all over the web allow people to view symptoms and clues that they can use to speak to their doctors about their mental health.

It is becoming less taboo for people to seak help. It might not be out in the open yet, but the discussion of mental illness is slowly coming out of the dark and inot the light of day.