'It’s easy to understand how certain measures, meant to benefit those with mental health issues, exclude individuals with serious mental illness'
While this shift is, of course, welcome and positive, it has continued to leave out many individuals and families who contend with mental health issues. I am referring to the 10 million Americans—1 in 20 adults, and 1 in 10 youth and young adults—who experience serious mental illness each year.
This May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month, let’s continue to focus in a positive and supportive way on individuals and families affected by serious mental illness. They need far higher levels of care and support than they currently receive. Serious mental illness is defined as a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder that causes serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. The most common serious mental health diagnoses includeWhat sets apart serious mental illness is that it entails a complex, lifelong condition. Treatment can help, provided it is consistent and accompanied by high-quality caseand support services.
Family members of individuals with serious mental illness spend much of their time focused and worried about the well-being and whereabouts of their loved ones. As a mental health attorney dedicated to helping these families, I regularly receive frantic calls illuminating the constant, debilitatingWith this in mind, it’s easy to understand how certain measures, meant to benefit those with mental health issues, exclude individuals with serious mental illness.
Individuals and families affected by serious mental illness understandably feel like they’re still fending for themselves, even as the country increasingly recognizes the importance of helping those with mental, behavioral, and emotional issues. There is hope in that there is treatment, stability and recovery.
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