End the Stigma on Mental Illness
There is a false divide in the American health care system (and our culture as well) between mental and physical health. Mental health care services are less funded, less available, and less covered by insurance (both private and federal). There is an added stigma to mental illness. The phrase "it's all in your head" is taken to mean that the one suffering is making the choice somehow to suffer, that if the one suffering was merely strong enough, he or she could just magically overcome his or her mental illness.
This divide is not real. The mind is part of the body. Mental illness, like physical illness, deserves to be accepted as real and those with mental illnesses deserve the same kind of medical coverage, benefits, and respect from the general public and the medical community as those with physical illnesses.
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This divide is not real. The mind is part of the body. Mental illness, like physical illness, deserves to be accepted as real and those with mental illnesses deserve the same kind of medical coverage, benefits, and respect from the general public and the medical community as those with physical illnesses.
If you're on facebook, please like this page and share it with your friends. It's time we end the stigma on mental illness.