You're completely correct.
However, maybe it's possible to cut down on the number of people who make a choice to take out as many people as possible just before they end their own life?
Maybe it's possible to cut down on the number of suicides overall?
Maybe it's possible to cut down on violence against others?
Maybe it's possible to cut down on alcohol and illegal drug dependence?
If every single man walking the planet gets a regular prostate exam and colonoscopy that won't stop some people from dying of prostate cancer, but it surely might cut down on the number that do.
Do you agree that there is a stigma in the USofA associated with mental health issues?
I don't know about Medicare, but here (France) it depends on what sort of therapy you are seeking. If you consult a psychiatrist, it will be partially covered, especially since the cure will most likely involve prescription drugs. A psychoanalyst will have to be paid fully from your own pocket, but some of them do practice for free in a few dedicated centers - just don't expect to receive the same quality of care you would get if you pay.
Psychoanalysis is for those who have the time and are committed to get to the root of the issue that may last up to a decade. What about cognitive-behavioral therapy?
Yea, what about it, and fast food?
I mean is that covered?
Witch hunts are the result of fear.
If we remove the fear, and provide acceptance, acknowledgement, and above all else - HOPE - we'd move a long way from where we are today.
I don't see mental health care as an either/or scenario.
Again, if seeking guidance and help from a counselor, psychologist, sociologist, priest, or even just a family member was basically viewed as no different than seeing a dentist over a tooth ache our society would better off by magnitudes.
IMHO
Eliminate all government assistance programs.After thinking about this more and more I believe the core issue might be a complete feeling of hopelessness.
If you have some hope, you're not going to do something ridiculously rash. If you have hope you're willing to listen, or talk, or seek help.
It's only when all hope is lost that somebody will snap.
How can we as a society try to prevent people from feeling like all hope is lost?
Eliminate all government assistance programs.
Is that sarcasm and a political jab at "socialism"? Or an honest suggestion from you?
What would that accomplish?
If somebody has lost their job and can't find another one, and they have a child or children to care for, and medical bills, and are on the verge of losing their house or apartment, and credit cards are starting to get maxed out.....how would having no safety net at all help with preventing a feeling of hopelessness?
So the purpose of safety nets according to you is to avoid a feeling of hopelessness?
There's something weird about society. If you can see it in an x-ray it's real. If not, you must be lying, lazy, or both.
That's something that we must try to avoid.
Mental illness has always had a stigma attached to it because people can't see into the minds of the mentally ill in order to completely understand it, whereas they can see the physical deterioration of cancer and other diseases of the body.
This, we need to get to a point where going to see a therapist is just like going to see a doctor because you have the flu. We need to de-stigmatize mental illness, period.
yes - we should openly discuss and confront this as a country
Both, in a way.Is that sarcasm and a political jab at "socialism"? Or an honest suggestion from you?
What would that accomplish?
If somebody has lost their job and can't find another one, and they have a child or children to care for, and medical bills, and are on the verge of losing their house or apartment, and credit cards are starting to get maxed out.....how would having no safety net at all help with preventing a feeling of hopelessness?
For U.S. troops, less combat is not translating to less stress. Members of the military committed suicide at a record pace in 2012 — almost one per day — and some experts think the trend will grow worse this year.
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