People who have never experienced a mental health crisis will never understand how hard it is to get any help. When you do go to an emergency room they call the cops to handcuff and shackles to transport you to a mental health center. They treat you like a criminal not a person seeking help!

I'm a mental health therapist and trust me, the need is dire. I have only so many hours in my week to see people. I could see more, but that would compromise my mental health and the quality that I provide to my clients/patients. Don't get me started on compensation. We in the social work field are required to work miracles on little pay. A major overhaul is needed.

I am a retired psych nurse and substance use counselor. Insurance companies do not provide adequate coverage for these disorders. They force addicts out of inpatient detox too soon and now out of day partial too soon. They have no coverage for residential treatment. A month of residential treatment costs $10,000 or more. Many addicts are broke because of their substance use. Because mental health and addiction services were not "lucrative" Ascension health in Indianapolis cut 90% of their outpatient services and their residential program. My job was cut. This is why there are not enough beds and not enough care providers. Residential treatment is far less expensive than prison. So, right, we don't need universal health care.

Replace the For-Profit Medical Industrial Complex with a Public Universal Healthcare System.

We need to allocate money for mental health care. The money is there, we just need to wait for it to trickle down (thanks RWR).

A mental health course for each grade should be set up and in place so that children receive some sources of what to do, where to go, when and who to report incidents, etc., instead of being left entirely on their own on how to deal with abuse. Perhaps they should receive a booklet, suitable for their age, at their first day of school, on resources to contact should they need help.

I'm a therapist in private practice and my case load is 25 people. I haven't had any openings in three years. People contact me weekly to see me and I have to turn them down. I hear from patients all the time that they can't find a therapist. And when I need to refer a patient for medication management, it takes 2-3 months for them to see a prescriber. We need more therapists! We need more psychiatrists! More training, funding. And more oversight on agencies to keep them accountable for the level of care they're providing.

Great subject guys! Thanks. Step away from the surface in order to go deeper, the root, that is the only solution. It's not a quick fix at all, try to change your entire society for your children and grandchildren's good sake.

Our whole health care system from top to bottom is imbarrasing. It's a joke

Before I retired from being a Registered Nurse, I called for a job at a mental hospital. They said yes they needed my help but that they were forbidden to hire more nurses due to cut backs. Republicans cut funds!

All this bull sh____ t about metal Heath they will do absolutely nothing to fix the problem people don't even have Heath insurance I don't buy anything they say !!!!

More availability to for mental illness care is long overdue in this country it's ridiculous and sickening.

Can we start with mental health tests for our government representatives?

You cannot fix mental health tomorrow, but you can get rid of guns immediately.

We need universal healthcare.

This should at least start in high school, dont just kick them out of school, work with them ,this has to start when they are young.

I think Gov. Abbott needs serious mental illness evaluation, he is spinal cord injured which is extremely significant and impacts him, his family and everybody around him and his decision making based in his anger, callousness, and denial of what's in front of him.

😢Emillio is right..this country hasn't finished grieving. Perhaps we, as a nation, are still working our way thru all the stages of grief. We lost sooo very many loved ones in the past 3 years.

Does it bother anyone that these particular leaders will determine what sanity is?

The unfortunate guy in New York was killed because he was throwing trash and acting unstable. 1 out of 5 homeless people suffer from mental illness.

Im sorry but, im not a child anymore, i just turned 57. I wouldn't relive my childhood no matter what could be offered. Instead, i wound up recreating the very same treatment by nearly everyone in my world. I married my dad and mom, i was so needy i drove people away or got taken advantage of. I was the scape goat and my mom called people, including dictors and told them not to help me, that they couldn't believe a word i said. I just want to hurt people. As a 7 year old i wanted to hurt them??? I can't remember why im telling you this. Wait, it's because, "You can not help a child until the adult is healthy enough for their child. "

All those jabs trigger people to off everyone

Top to bottom changes are needed in the BRANDON administration

Is self-medicating with ice cream mental health care? Asking for an elderly Democrat career politician.

American Enterprise Institute is a Republican think tank which focuses on words for messaging. Mental health is a problem but is also the message Republicans want to promote for the answer to the gun problem in the US.

At the very least, those seeking mental health should be required to complete a Gun Safety course before getting treatment...

President Biden must create a cabinet position for a mental health or brain disease czar. Dr. Mary Trump has some great ideas. From the mass psychosis of the country & the ravages of covid, this is a prudent & necessary decision.

I can not tell you how very much I agree with no children should be left alone to deal with the current US values and goals

You know where help for people with mental health problems should start,our government, all politicians. Plus let's not forget corporate America.

Anyone who can tried their shoelaces does not have problems, those that have a hard time usually run for public office. One of the largest group of professionals that take their own life are the doctors that treat mental challege people. Go figure.

Why does Joe have any guests on? He seems to be an absolute expert in everything why doesn't he just interview himself?

Shooters do not walk into mental health clinics. And if they did, services are scarce, almost absent.

Mandatory for all MSNBC hosts

BUILDING MORE HOMES N HELPING PEOPLE FEEL SECURE N SAFE.

Mental health system did nothing for me but give me debt and meds, actually it made my crisis worse, oh and now I can't own firearms 😊 America baby

Have you considered that people who don't have any insight into their mental illness is because they don't have any? Perhaps your prejudices, stigmatisation, slender and libel is what causes the problem?

Great segment👏👏👏👏👏

Again, a refreshing interview, about mental health and the connecting ( lacking ) treatments. More medicine is not the solution, and neither is the handout of Insulin for that matter. Those measures are only feeding the pockets of the Pharmaceutical Industries while leaving the cause untreated so to say. The question should be, in the first place: Why are there so many mentally ill folks in the USA ? Compare the Statistics with for example Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Israel, and the Netherlands the five happiest countries in the World. ( the USA is ranked number 15 ) This only proves that military power and an extreme form of capitalism do not mean well-being for the masses in society. There is nothing wrong with Money, on the contrary, but there is "something wrong" in the way we use it, the Food Industry is a very harmful consequence of the system, just one example. Sugar is addictive, and the Industry knows that they use the same criminal practices as the cigarette industry did in the past, killing millions of people over the years. Ironically everybody is upset about the shootings but nobody has the guts to question the practices of the Food industries. Dr. Lustig would be your great next guest if it is about the root cause of mental and physical illnesses and the effects of sugar on the addicted population of this country.

Sure does, shame about the hundreds/thousands that will be slaughtered in the mean time.

That's for starters.

Does this mean we will finally admit that they/them people with severe body dysmorphia and multiple personality disorder are also mentally ill?

Biden's America! Vivek 2024

Wage act enforced correctly locally by police and welfare departments rightfully expect social security minimum entitlement and minimum wage is a living local commute. This minimum standard of living and allowing transition to working.

Those ways exist❤🎉

We hava a mental health crisis and it is coming from the republicans side. They need to seek Dr Fauci help in maintaining their polite-ness and manner's.

Carry your gun

Crazy lady had diff take in your previous vid. You not collaborate as “journalists”

Fear. People are more afraid of 'Mental' illness than of Death. Its the most personal sort of illness. It gets inside of who the person is and the universe they live in. If its not you, that could mean Anything ! If its a stranger near you . . . All defenses go up. So we dont want to look.

Well for starters, we can establish the fact that hurt feelings do not equate to a mental health crisis 🙄

Americans used to be able to order fully automatic machine guns from the sears catalog, and have it delivered to their door. Yet somehow these mass events never happened… this is a modern issue. Wonder what is causing it?

What was in those jabs?🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Only if someone can get rich. That's the only way mental health will get the attention it needs.

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