I am just a mother of a mentally disabled person. I have been trying to navigate the mental health system and it’s bad. I have ideas that I believe would help the entire nation. I hear people blame the parents for mass shootings but the system fails us. I have been trying to get real help since covid lockdowns. Here are some of my ideas.
- If a person has been identified as mentally ill with psychosis there should be a place available they can go to for help without the long mentally stressful visit to the emergency room. My son stays in the emergency room for days waiting to be accepted hours away when he is in mania. We spend millions on wars but not solving the mental illness crisis in this nation.
- I worked as a caregiver at a AFC home. We fed them garbage. The food they eat in these facilities is prison food. This is course productive to their mental health. I want my son to get the help he needs but I don’t want them to kill his body. Healthy GMO free food should be mandatory for psychological evaluation institutions. I feel guilty to eat healthy while my has no choice but to eat what they’re feeding him and it’s garbage. I’m not even allowed to bring him healthy food.
- I would like to see alternative treatments be covered by insurance and as the first step instead of medicating.
- I believe there should be faith based mental health facilities available. They can be a charity based facility. The mental health industry tried to reach us that religion is the enemy of mental illness. I think we should rest that theory and produce alternative institutions that pray with and for those who are suffering as well as treating them with medicine. We have to treat their soul and spirit too.
- Everyone should be able to receive mental help regardless of their income , and those family and friends that are trying to maintain their care should receive free or affordable therapy. I also think everyone working as a mental health caregiver should receive healthcare and mental therapy at no cost. No caretaker should be uninsured.
- Mental health clients should not be required to wear masks and take vaccines to receive care. And they shouldn’t be manipulated into doing things that cause them more paranoia. They are trying to force my son to wear a mask today because covid is going around. This is prepetuating his mental illness not helping it.