Title: Ronald Reagan nailed the coffin shut on mental health funding in this country but now it's time pull the nails out and resurrect it. Lets focus more on caring for the mentally disturb and not so much on gun control. : PoliticalDiscussion
Headings: Ronald Reagan nailed the coffin shut on mental health funding in this country but now it's time pull the nails out and resurrect it. Lets focus more on caring for the mentally disturb and not so much on gun control.
Ronald Reagan nailed the coffin shut on mental health funding in this country but now it's time pull the nails out and resurrect it. Lets focus more on caring for the mentally disturb and not so much on gun control.
Ronald Reagan nailed the coffin shut on mental health funding in this country but now it's time pull the nails out and resurrect it. Lets focus more on caring for the mentally disturb and not so much on gun control.
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Content: Your entire attitude and approach here is the problem. It's because of people who think like this that we're in the situation we are with mental health care in this country. It's not just about expanding mental health care. It's about destigmatizing mental health issues and bringing them in line with the way we treat psychical health issues. We need to create an environment where we can treat people who are going to a psychological therapist the same way as people who are going to a physical therapist. We need to create an environment where people have accessible preventative maintenance that they feel comfortable utilizing when issues that cause psychological breakdowns can be identified, studied and hopefully treated. Only a small fraction of cuts get infected. Only a tiny fraction of those become serious health risks. We still take care to treat our injuries so we don't end up dead in the hospital from a scratch on a rusty nail. A few hundred years ago death from infection was far more common because humans had primitive and ignorant views on physical health.