Title: 8 Reasons Why People Don’t Get Treatment for Mental Illness | Advocating for Better Mental Health
Headings: 8 Reasons Why People Don’t Get Treatment for Mental Illness
8 Reasons Why People Don’t Get Treatment for Mental Illness
1) Fear and shame
2) Lack of insight
3) Limited awareness
4) Feelings of inadequacy
5) Distrust
6) Hopelessness
7) Unavailability
8) Practical barriers
Addressing the problem
For more on this topic, please see my recent post on overcoming these 8 barriers to treatment.
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Content: Not having reliable transportation, child care issues and appointments for treatment that conflict with work or school schedules can also prevent someone from engaging in treatment. Addressing the problem
Any one of these factors which delay or prevent appropriate care can be very difficult to overcome. To further complicate matters, several of these issues can often be in play simultaneously. These barriers are often even more pronounced among ethnic minority groups, older adults and individuals with less money or education. Just as the issues are complex, solutions aren’t easy to find. Addressing practical barriers may be possible, by helping to arrange transportation, assisting with child care, or negotiating with employers to allow time away from work for mental health appointments. The recent expansion in the US of mental health insurance benefits has opened up new care options for many people who were previously uninsured and who couldn’t afford to pay out of pocket for their treatment. Availability of services can be a difficult issue to address, particularly in rural areas with few mental health clinicians. The increase of nurse practitioners as prescribers and programs which pay off clinicians’ student loans in exchange for their work in underserved areas have increased the number of trained providers in some regions. The pronounced lack of insight seen in more severe mental illnesses is extremely difficult to change.